1. Developer's Guide
  2. Introducing Oracle Data Provider for .NET
  3. Differences between the ODP.NET Drivers

Differences between the ODP.NET Drivers

ODP.NET, Managed Driver, ODP.NET, Unmanaged Driver, and ODP.NET Core have a number of configuration setting differences.

Table 1-8 Application Programming Interfaces not supported in ODP.NET, Managed Driver and ODP.NET Core

Namespace Class/Enumeration/Interface Unsupported Method/Property/Event

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

FailoverEvent enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

FailoverReturnCode enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

FailoverType enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleAQAgent class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleAQDequeueuMode enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleAQDequeueOptions class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleAQEnqueueOptions class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleAQMessage class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleAQMessageAvailableEventArgs class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleAQMessageAvailableEventHandler class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleAQMessageDeliveryMode enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleAQMessageState enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleAQMessageType enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleAQNavigationMode enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleAQNotificationGroupingType enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleAQNotificationType enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleAQQueue class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleAQVisibilityMode enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleBulkCopy class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleBulkCopyColumnMapping class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleBulkCopyColumnMappingCollection class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleBulkCopyOptions class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleClientFactory class

Not supported in ODP.NET Core only

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleCommand class

ArrayBindRowsAffected property

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleCommand class

ImplicitRefCursors property

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleConnection class

FlushCache() method

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleConnection class

Failover event

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleConnection class

ConnectionType property

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleConnection class

SetShardingKey method

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleConnection class

EnlistDistributedTransaction(ITransaction) method

Not supported in ODP.NET Core only

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleConnectionType enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleDBShutdownMode enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleDBStartupMode enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleDataReader class

GetOracleRef() method

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleDataReader class

GetOracleBlobForUpdate() method

If the method is called, then a NotSupportedException is thrown.

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleDataReader class

GetOracleClobForUpdate() method

If the method is called, then a NotSupportedException is thrown.

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleDataReader class

IsAutoIncrement and IdentityType properties of the GetSchemaTable

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleDataAdapter class

IdentityInsert property

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleDataAdapter class

IdentityUpdate property

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleDataAdapter class

SafeMapping property

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleDatabase class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleDbType enumeration

Array

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleDbType enumeration

Object

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleDbType enumeration

Ref

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleException class

IsRecoverable property

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleFailoverEventArgs class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleFailoverEventHandler class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleGlobalization class

ClientCharacterSet property

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleGlobalization class

GetClientInfo() method

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleGlobalization class

GetThreadInfo() method

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleGlobalization class

SetThreadInfo() method

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleIdentityType enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleNotificationRequest class

GroupingInterval property

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleNotificationRequest class

GroupingNotificationEnabled property

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleNotificationRequest class

GroupingType property

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OraclePermission class

Not supported in ODP.NET Core only

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OraclePermissionAttribute class

Not supported in ODP.NET Core only

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleRowsCopiedEventArgs class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client

OracleRowsCopiedEventHandler class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Types

IOracleArrayTypeFactory interface

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Types

IOracleCustomType interface

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Types

IOracleCustomTypeFactory interface

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Types

OracleArrayMappingAttribute class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Types

OracleCustomTypeMappingAttribute class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Types

OracleObjectMappingAttribute class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Types

OracleRef class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Types

OracleShardingKey class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Types

OracleTimestampTZ structure

OracleTimeStampTZ(DateTime dt, string timeZone) constructor. This constructor is supported but the timeZone must be an hour offset.

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Types

OracleUdt class

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Types

OracleUdtFetchOption enumeration

All

Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Types

OracleUdtStatus enumeration

All

ODP.NET Core supports the OracleConfiguration , OracleDataSourceCollection, and OracleOnsServerCollection classes, which are not present in managed nor unmanaged ODP.NET.

See Also:

Oracle Data Provider for .NET, Managed Driver Configuration and Configuration differences between ODP.NET, Managed Driver and ODP.NET, Unmanaged Driver for more information about ODP.NET, Managed Driver .NET configuration settings.

Distributed Transactions for information about distributed transaction setup difference.

Oracle Data Provider for .NET Core Configuration for more information about configuring ODP.NET Core.