Creating Virtual Private application context

An application context is a name-value pair, which Oracle stores in memory. These name-value pairs exist within a namespace. The application context is a global variable, which can be accessed within a database session. Application contexts can support database sessions (user database sessions) and global application contexts (for sessionless models—for example, web applications using session pooling or multi-tiered applications).

Getting ready

Log on to SQL Developer under the schema owner to create the packages for the application context.

How to do it...

Application context is a way to create variables that can be reused within the Oracle database:

  1. Create a package to set application contexts:
    create ...

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