Summary

In this chapter, you learned that

• The JDBC API enables Java to access a database.

• The Oracle JDBC drivers are used to connect to an Oracle database.

• SQL statements may be executed using JDBC.

• Oracle has developed a number of extensions to standard JDBC that allow you to gain access to all of the data types supported by an Oracle database.

In the next chapter, you ll learn how to tune your SQL statements for maximum performance.