Designed to meet your practical needs, these features will help you build effective, reliable applications. When you want to read or write a text file, you call the function fopen , which returns a file handle for use in subsequent procedure calls. However, on the server side, file access is restricted to those directories explicitly listed in the accessible directories list , which is part of the Oracle initialization file. For more information, see Oracle7 Server Application Developer's Guide .
Attributes are characteristics of an object.
For example, you can declare a cursor variable on the client side, open and fetch from it on the server side, then continue to fetch from it back on the client side. They return useful information about the execution of a multi-row query. Among other things, this adds flexibility to your cursor definitions. Whenever a library unit was recompiled, the server timestamped it. At run time, dependent subprograms on a client system or on another server were invalidated because their timestamps were no longer current.