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0 From the OTN Series on “Mastering .NET Application Development with Oracle”, this installment on taking advantage of .NET stored procedures in your applications. See Using .NET Stored Procedures in Oracle
PL/SQL stored procedures and functions run in the same process as the Oracle Database and are stored inside of Oracle. A .NET stored procedure, on the other hand, runs in an external process and the .NET code is compiled into a “.NET assembly,” which is a dynamic link library (DLL) file stored in the file system (usually on the same machine as the database). The .NET assembly is loaded into and executed inside of a “CLR host” external process named extproc.exe, which is spawned by the Windows service named
If you are using Oracle Database 10g Express Edition, .NET stored procedures are automatically installed and configured—no additional configuration is required. In the Standard and Enterprise Editions, however, .NET stored procedures are not installed and configured by default. Note: you need Oracle Database 10.2 or later for the Windows platform. (Note: .NET stored procedures are not supported on any other platform!)
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I´m having the following problem using Oracle .Net procedues.
I´ve made a function that return an accent a (á) but when I call it, returns another value.
Public Shared Function x1() As String
Return “á”
End Function
Public Shared Function x2() As String
Dim oConDB As New DoConexionOracle(Constants.STRCON)
Return oConDB.ObtenerEscalarFromSQL(“select ‘á’ FROM DUAL”)
End Function
SELECT x1() FROM DUAL
á
SELECT x2() FROM DUAL
á
Any idea?
TIA,
Christian