Supported Properties and Methods
- Last Updated: April 16, 2026
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See Oracle Data Provider Classes for information about the provider-specific implementation of public properties and methods of the major classes used by the data provider. You can also refer to the data provider’s online help.
The ADO.NET Entity Framework programming contexts inherently eliminate the need to use some ADO.NET methods and properties. These properties and methods remain useful for standard ADO.NET applications.
The following table lists the properties and methods that are not required or are implemented differently when using the data provider with an ADO.NET Entity application.
Properties and Methods Differences with the ADO.NET Entity Data Provider
| Property or Method | Behavior |
| Command | |
| AddRowID | Not supported |
| ArrayBindCount | Not supported |
| ArrayBindStatus | Not supported |
| BindByName | Not supported |
| CommandTImeout | Not supported |
| RowSetSize | Not supported |
| UpdatedRowSource | Not supported |
| CommandBuilder | |
| DeriveParameters | Not supported |
| Connection | |
| ConnectionTimeout | Supported only in the connection string |
| CurrentPassword | Use the CurrentPasswordstored procedure. See Using Stored Procedures with the ADO.NET Entity Framework for information on using this functionality in an ADO.NET Entity Framework application. |
| CurrentUser | Use the CurrentUser stored procedure. See Using Stored Procedures with the ADO.NET Entity Framework for information on using this functionality in an ADO.NET Entity Framework application. |
| CurrentUserTimeoutAffinity | Use the DDTek_Connection_Reauthenticate stored procedure. See Using Stored Procedures with the ADO.NET Entity Framework for information on using this functionality in an ADO.NET Entity Framework application. |
| CursorDescriptionCache | Not supported |
| DatabaseCharacterSetName | Not supported |
| FetchArraySize | Not supported |
| TNSNamesFile | Not supported |
| GetAvailableNetServiceNames | Not supported |
| OpenWithNewPassword | Not supported |
| SetOEMLicenseInfo | Not supported |
| StatisticsEnabled | Use the DDTek_Connection_StatisticsEnabled or DDTek_Connection_StatisticsDisabled pseudo stored procedure. See Using Stored Procedures with the ADO.NET Entity Framework for information on using this functionality in an ADO.NET Entity Framework application. |
| OracleConnectionStringBuilder | |
| BulkLoadProtocol | Ignored |
| CursorDescriptionCache | Ignored |
| Number As Double | False is the only valid value. True is not supported and results in an exception. |
| Parameter Mode | Ignored |
| Ref Cursor Mode | Ignored |
| Statement Cache Mode | Not supported |
| OracleDataAdapter | |
| UpdateBatchSize | Not supported |
| OracleError | |
| ErrorPosition | Not supported |
| SQLState | Not supported |