Oracle Opens Your Windows

Dick VestersFrank van der Borden

Oracle Nederland BV

Agenda

• Start installation of Oracle10g DB SE• Integration of Visual Studio and Oracle ??• Demo Oracle Enterprise Manager• Integration of Windows and Oracle DB• Summary

Installation Startup

Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET

Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET

• Tightly integrated “Add-in” for MS Visual Studio .NET

• Brings the power of Oracle Database to Windows developers

• Oracle is a premier-level partner in MS Visual Studio Industry Partner Program (VSIP)

• Beta2 now available www.oracle.com/technology/tech/dotnet/index.html

• Give feedback to christian.shay@oracle.com

Develop on Windows, Database on any platform

Visual StudioEnvironment

Oracle Developer Oracle Developer Tools for VS.NETTools for VS.NET

Windows

Linux

Windows

Solaris

Oracle DB 10g, 9i

Other

Feature Overview

• Oracle Explorer – browse / alter schema• Wizards & Designers – eg Table designer,

SP Wizard• Automatic Code Generation • Database Procedure PL/SQL Editor • Integrated Help System –SQL, PLSQL

keywords• .NET Stored Procedure Deployment

Oracle Explorer

• Tree control, similar to “Server Explorer”• Can view most Oracle schema objects, not

just lowest common denominator• A starting place for most tasks

– View, Alter, Create schema objects– Auto generate code – View and edit Oracle data

Designers and Wizards

• Table Designer• View Designer• Stored Procedure/Function Wizard• Package Wizards• Sequence Designer• Synonym Designer• Data Adapter Wizard • .NET Stored Procedure Deployment Wizard

Data Window

• View and Update Table data• Run Stored procedures and view cursors

and arrays• Supports Oracle data types• View complex data types such as REF

Cursors

PL/SQL Code Editor

• Syntax Coloring• Intelli-sense• Context sensitive help for SQL and PLSQL

Keywords and Datatypes• Intelligent Error display• Collapsible regions

Automatic code generation

• Drag and drop a schema object from Oracle explorer

• Generated code uses Oracle Data Adapter (ODP.NET)

• Data Adapter Wizard can be run for custom designs

Integrated Online Help

• Getting started• Walkthroughs• ODT Reference• Context sensitive help for UI elements• SQL Users Guide• PL/SQL Users Guide• Context sensitive SQL and PLSQL

keywords

Benefits• Easy to learn

– intuitive for Oracle on Windows programmers• Leverage MS Developers experience

– to write Oracle apps easily and quickly• Powerful features

– greatly enhance productivity – e.g.designers, code generation• Exposes native Oracle functionality and features

– not typically available in generic tools • Stay in your comfort zone

– You don’t have to leave your MS environment to do ordinary database tasks

Agenda

• Start installation of Oracle10g DB SE• Integration of Visual Studio and Oracle ??• Demo Oracle Enterprise Manager• Integration of Windows and Oracle DB• Summary

Oracle Enterprise Manager Demo

Agenda

• Start installation of Oracle10g DB SE• Integration of Visual Studio and Oracle ??• Demo Oracle Enterprise Manager• Integration of Windows and Oracle DB• Summary

ODP.NET - Basics• Available today in production for free

– www.oracle.com/technology/tech/dotnet/index.html– Original release: 2002– Fully compliant with ADO.Net

• Can be used with Oracle9i, Oracle10g DB servers– DB server can be on Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.– Database client on Windows

• Supports VS.NET 2002 and 2003• Supports .NET Framework 1.0 and 1.1• Wide adoption

– 50k+ ODP.NET downloads in past year– 4k+ posts on ODP discussion forum

ODP.NET Object Model

DataSet OracleDataAdapter

OracleTransaction

OracleCommand

OracleConnection

OracleDataReader

Connected Layer(ODP.NET)

DisconnectedLayer

Oracle

OracleCommandBuilder

DataLayer

ODP.NET Features

• Native Oracle data types– LOBs, REF Cursor, N-data types, Date,

TimeStamps, Long, Raw, etc.• Full DB procedure (PL/SQL) support

– Packaged, non-packaged, anonymous, autonomous

– Batch SQL available with anonymous PL/SQL• Grid Support (RAC)

– Notification callbacks

Oracle XML DB

• XML repository• Native XMLType• XML stored as CLOB or object• Schema and non-schema-based• XML Views

ODP.NET XML Features

• XMLType data type– Schema and non-schema based XML

• Query and Save XML from the DB– Both relational and object-relational

• Interoperate with .NET XML APIs – e.g. XmlReader, XmlDocument

• Supports XSLT and XPATH

More ODP.NET Features• Connection Pooling

– Min, Max, Timeout, Lifetime, Increment, Decrement• Transactions

– Enterprise Services via Oracle Services for MTS– Local (Implicit and Explicit) – Save-points

• Globalization – Full Unicode support– Client settings are used to display Oracle data in

locale-specific manner

ODP.NET Security

• Windows Native Authentication– Single sign-on

• Proxy user authentication– Connection pooling

• Full support of row level security in DB (VPD) and Oracle Label Security (OLS)

• Kerberos and SSL

MSMS Data Access ProvidersData Access Providers OracleOracle

Native Access ( high performance ) Yes

Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS) Yes

Native XML Data Type Yes

Result Set Retrieval Tuning Options Yes

Configurable LOB Retrieval Yes

Array Parameters Yes

Security; Pooling; Globalization… Yes

Differences Oracle vs MS Data Access Provider

No

No

No

No

No

No

No

New! ODP.NET 10.1.0.3

• Just released • SQL Statement Caching• Command cancellation and timeout • DeriveParameters support (automatic stored

procedure parameter metadata population) • Support for APIs introduced with ADO.NET 1.1 • And bug fixes...

Agenda

• Start installation of Oracle10g DB SE• Integration of Visual Studio and Oracle ??• Demo Oracle Enterprise Manager• Integration of Windows and Oracle DB• Summary

Summary

• Oracle brings the power of Oracle Database to Windows Developers

• Oracle is committed to delivering a great database for Windows and making Windows developers more productive when using Oracle Database

• dotNet Developer Centerwww.oracle.com/technology/tech/dotnet/index.html

Dell Computer

• Uses ODP.NET to handle United States order management placed over the web

• Dell incorporates ODP.NET because– More control over connection pooling– Performance– Native support for ref cursors– Native support for LOB data types– Parameter binding

• Uses XML DB and ODP.NET for XML document manipulation

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