2.7 BulkReader and BulkInserter

2.7.1 Support

The DBTools.h++ access library for Oracle8 supports both bulk reading and bulk writing through the array interface provided by the OC 8.x functions OCIBindByPos() and OCIDescribeByPos().

2.7.2 Dates

The RWDBDateVector produced by the RWDBDatabase associated with the DBTools.h++ access library for Oracle8 encapsulates collections of the OCI datatype struct oci_date.

2.7.3 Binary Data

Each row of a column inserted with an RWDBulkInserter and an RWDBBinaryVector can be of different width, less than or equal to the width used as the argument to the RWDBBinaryVector constructor. The RWDBBinaryVector filled in by an RWDBBulkReader can determine the specific data length of each of its elements, so long as the width of the elements is less than width.