In this chapter, you've taken a look at some of the various ways you can use to connect to an Oracle database via ODP.NET: TNS connections Connections without using TNSNames.ora Oracle's EZConnect You've also seen how you can use various connection string parameters to implement connection pooling, integrated Windows authentication, and connections with special privileges. Last, we covered the basic groundwork on TAF and its limitations and how you can ultimately enable it in your application. In the next chapter, you will take a step further and write code to transact with the Oracle...

Oracle Application Express 4 Recipes provides an example-based approach to learning Application Express--the ground-breaking, rapid application development platform included with every Oracle Database license. The recipes format is ideal for the quick-study who just wants a good example or two to kick start their thinking and get pointed in the right direction.

The recipes cover the gamut of Application Express development. Author and Application Express expert Edmund Zehoo shows how to create data entry screens, visualize data in the form of reports and charts,...