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Oracle Context Editor

The Oracle Context Editor is available only for Oracle 9i and 10g. Use the Oracle Context Editor to create a context for a package.

Open the Oracle Context Editor by selecting the Context Tab from the Oracle Package Editor. Open the Oracle Package Editor by selecting Package from the Database menu.

For Oracle 9i and 10g, contexts are supported in the following features:

The following describes the options available in this tab:

Contexts

A list box that contains the available contexts.

New

Select New to create a new context. Opens the New Context dialog where you can specify the name for the new context.

Rename

Select Rename to rename a context. Opens the Rename Context dialog where you can assign a different name to the context.

Delete

Select a context from the Contexts list box that you want to delete, and click the Delete button.

Context Type

Select this check box so you can select one of the three options for Context Type:

INITIALIZED EXTERNALLY
INITIALIZED GLOBALLY
ACCESSED GLOBALLY
Generate

Select this check box if you want to generate DDL for this object during Forward Engineering. If you do not select the check box, no DDL will be generated for this object during Forward Engineering.