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Rule Types

This chapter describes the types used with rules, rule sets, and evaluation contexts.

This chapter contains the following topic:

• Rule Types

Rule types are used with the following Oracle-supplied PL/SQL packages:

• DBMS_RULE
• DBMS_RULE_ADM
• DBMS_STREAMS_ADM

You can use the DBMS_RULE_ADM package to create and administer rules, rule sets, and evaluation contexts, and you can use the DBMS_RULE package to evaluate rules. When you use Streams, rules determine which changes are captured by a capture process, which events are propagated by a propagation job, and which events are dequeued and applied by an apply process. Also, the DBMS_STREAMS_ADM package creates system-generated rules for use during capture, propagation, and apply.