No network round trips are involved because the Server Driver and the SQLEngine both run in the same address space. If you need to connect to your Oracle8i data server using an application or an applet, you should choose the JDBC thin driver. If you desire maximum performance from your application, then you should use the JDBC OCI driver. If your Java program is running in the Oracle database server using at least the Oracle 8.1.5 Java VM, you should choose the JDBC Server driver. To read the rest of this article and to view the accompanying tables, click over to InformIT .
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