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Added missing documentation on external authentication and homogeneous pools.
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whether or not to initialize Oracle in events mode. This is required for
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continuous query notification and high availability event notifications.
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The homogeneous parameter is expected to be a boolean expression which
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indicates whether or not to create a homogeneous pool. A homogeneous pool
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requires that all connections in the pool use the same credentials. As such
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proxy authentication and external authentication is not possible with a
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homogeneous pool.
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The externalauth parameter is expected to be a boolean expression which
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indicates whether or not external authentication should be used. External
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authentication implies that something other than the database is
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authenticating the user to the database. This includes the use of operating
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system authentication and Oracle wallets.
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The encoding parameter is expected to be a string, if specified, and sets
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the encoding to use for regular database strings. If not specified, the
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environment variable NLS_LANG is used. If the environment variable NLS_LANG

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