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Oracle includes a number
of features that establish and tune your database connections, described in the following
subsections. We??™ve divided the discussion into two categories: database
networking and Oracle Application Server.
Database Networking
Database users connect to the database by establishing a network connection. You
can also link database servers via network connections. Oracle provides a number of
features to establish connections between users and the database and/or between
database servers, as described in the following subsections.
Oracle Net
Oracle??™s network interface, Oracle Net, was formerly known as Net8 when used in
Oracle8, and SQL*Net when used with Oracle7 and previous versions of Oracle. You
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can use Oracle Net over a wide variety of network protocols, although TCP/IP is by
far the most common protocol today. Features associated with Oracle Net, such as
shared servers, are referred to as Oracle Net Services.
Oracle Internet Directory
The Oracle Internet Directory (OID) was introduced with Oracle8i.


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