JDBC is the key Java technology for relational database access. Oracle is one of the most widely used relational database platforms. In this volume, Don Bales brings these two technologies together, and shows the reader how to leverage the full power of Oracle's implemantation of JDBC. It begins with establishing database connections. Detailed information and examples showing how to make database connections from applications, applets, servlets, and even from Java programs running within the database itself are used. Next is coverage of JDBC's relational SQL features. It shows how to issue SQL statements and get results back from the database, how to read and write data from large, streaming data types such as BLOBs, CLOBs and BFILEs and how to interface with Oracle's other built-in programming language PL/SQL. It also covers how to use JPublisher and JDBC to work seamlessly with Oracle database objects from within Java programs, and how to access nested tables and arrays using JDBC. It concludes with a discussion of transaction management, locking, concurrency, and performance topics with which every professional JDBC programmer should be familiar.