RE: Raw / VB / ADODB

Ya, that's it!
(Peter still wanted to argue with me. Is Long Island the "show-me" city?? But when he tried it, it worked)

Thanks a bunch!
Barb

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> From: tim_at_sagelogix.com[SMTP:tim_at_sagelogix.com]
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> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:13 PM
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> Subject: Re: Raw / VB / ADODB
>
> Barb,
>
> Ask them to wrap RAWTOHEX() around the RAW column, which
> will convert the resulting datatype to VARCHAR2?
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> -Tim
>
> > Solaris 8
> > Oracle 8.1.7.3
> >
> > We have a field level_id defined as raw(5) in a table
> > called objects. I can pull data from this table from
> > sqlplus as follows:
> > select name, obj_id, level_id from objects where
> > level_id='0101010000' and name = '1X3HRJOHNSON'
> >
> > NAME OBJ_ID LEVEL_ID
> > --------------- ---------- ----------
> > 1X3HRJOHNSON 500583 0101010000
> >
> > The developer is not able to pull identifiable data from
> > the raw column level_id using VB. His notes are shown
> > below. We searched metalink and google, and cannot find
> > an answer.
> > Any help? Thanks!!
> >
> > Barb
> >
> > OK,
> >
> > I am using ADODB microsoft data objects version 2.7
> >
> > I am using Oracle odbc driver 8.01
> > I am trying to extract a raw field that is described as
> > level_id raw(5)
> > Every field extracts correctly except level_id....
> >
> >
> > Here is an example code excerpt
> >
> > Set oRS = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
> > sSQL = "Select distinct level_id from objects"
> > oRS.Source = sSQL
> > oRS.ActiveConnection = conn
> > oRS.Open
> > Do Until oRS.EOF
> > For i = 0 To oRS.Fields.Count - 1
> > If oRS.Fields(i).Type = 204 Then ' RAW
> > field type
> > strTemp = oRS.Fields(i).Value
> > end if
> > next
> > oRS.movenext
> > loop
> >
> > In SQLPLUS when we ran a query on a record we got
> > level _id 0101010000 , the above vb program returned 971.
> > SQLPLUS level_id 010A030000, vb returned 633...
> >
> >
> > What is ODBC returning? is the value truncated
> > somehow?
> > does it need to be converted ?
> > I think we are getting partial data and not the full
> > length of the RAW field
> > Is RAW(5) equivalent to 10 bytes ?
> > SQLPLUS shows 10 positions on output ....
> >
> > HELP !!!
> >
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