What is the Oracle Call Interface (OCI)?
Oracle8i Oracle Call Interface (OCI) is the most comprehensive, commercially-available interface that completely addresses all requirements of high performance, secure, scalable middle tier mission-critical solutions that integrate well with an Oracle server. Using OCI, an application can service increasing number of users and requests without additional hardware investments. OCI is an application programming interface (API) that allows an application developer to use C procedures or function calls to access the Oracle data server and control all phases of business logic execution. The OCI provides a library of standard database access and retrieval functions in the form of a dynamic runtime library, that can be linked in by the application. OCI in Oracle8i delivers a fundamentally new programming paradigm which improves application performance and scalability through efficient usage of system memory and network connectivity, provides a consistent interface for session and transaction
