What's New in Heterogeneous Connectivity Administrator's Guide?

This section describes new features of the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2) and provides pointers to additional information. New features information from previous releases is also retained to help those users migrating to the current release.

The following sections describe the new features in Oracle Database Heterogeneous Connectivity Administrator's Guide:

• Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2) New Features

• Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1) Features

Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2) New Features

New features for Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2) in the Heterogeneous Connectivity Administrator's Guide include:

• Data type checking

  This release adds data type checking for remote-mapped statements. The result provides consistent data type checking and complete data type coercion.

  See Also:

  Section 4.5, "Oracle Database Server SQL Construct Processing"

• tg4pwd Utility

  Use this utility to encrypt initialization parameters in a Heterogeneous Services Gateway initialization file.

  See Also:

  Section 4.2.3, "Encrypting Initialization Parameters"

Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1) Features

Features for Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1) in the Heterogeneous Connectivity Administrator's Guide included:

• HS_CALL_NAME initialization parameter

  Use the HS_CALL_NAME initialization parameter to specify remote functions that can be referenced by SQL statements.

  See Also:

  Section 4.6, "Executing User-Defined Functions on a Non-Oracle Database" and Section A.1, "HS_CALL_NAME"