ROracle (version 1.1-5)

dbDriver-methods: Oracle implementation of the Database Interface (DBI) classes and drivers

Description

Oracle driver initialization and closing

Arguments

drvName

character name of the driver to instantiate.

drv

an object that inherits from OraDriver as created by dbDriver.

...

any other arguments are passed to the driver drvName.

Value

• dbDriver
  An object OraDriver whose class extends DBIDriver. This object is used to create connections, using the function dbConnect, to one or several Oracle database engines.
• dbUnloadDriver
  free all resources occupied by driver object.

References

For the Oracle Database documentaion see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html.

Details

[object Object],[object Object]

See Also

Oracle, dbConnect, dbSendQuery, dbGetQuery, fetch, dbCommit, dbGetInfo, dbListTables, dbReadTable.

Examples

# create an Oracle instance
    drv <- dbDriver("Oracle")

    con <- dbConnect(drv, "scott", "tiger")
    res <- dbSendQuery(con, "select * from emp")
    fetch(res, n = 5)
    fetch(res)
    dbClearResult(res)
    dbUnloadDriver(drv)