Re: Bugs in Oracle 8.0.5 and ADO?

Have you tried using the Oracle Provider for OLE DB (beta)? It's available at: http://technet.oracle.com/tech/nt/ole_db/

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 09:35:27 -0000, "Duncan Chilvers" <duncanc_at_ukf.net> wrote:

>Are you using ODBC or OLE DB? It may make a difference.
>
>I have been working on an Oracle 8.05 database with ADO and VB, and the only
>problem I have had so far is that I can't get the OLE DB (MSDAORA) to work
>with Net8, and have to configure good ol' SQL*Net to get the thing to
>connect.
>
>There seems to be serious lack of documentation on ADO (and ADO with Oracle
>in particular) with VB and I have no idea on where to go to find out how to
>use Net8 with the OLEDB.
>
>Jeffrey C. Dege <jdege_at_jdege.visi.com> wrote in message
>news:slrn82p43t.j5r.jdege_at_jdege.visi.com...
>>
>> One of my coworkers has been working on an app using VB6 and ADO,
>> talking to an Oracle database. Things were working fine when our
>> server was running 8.0.3, but we upgraded the server to 8.0.5
>> (because the customer we'll be delivering this to is running 8.0.5).
>>
>> And suddenly the app stopped working. Pulling data from some tables
>> works fine, others only returns some of the records, others just
>> hang the app.
>>
>> Oracle support says there are a great many known issues with Oracle and
>> ADO, and that they are working on their own ADO drivers, but this
>> isn't ready now.
>>
>> I find it hard to believe that somebody hasn't made this work.
>>
>> Where do I look for ideas?
>>
>> --
>> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
>> simple system that worked ...A complex system designed from scratch never
>> works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over,
>> beginning with a working simple system.
>> -- Grady Booch
>>
>
Received on Sat Nov 20 1999 - 07:02:08 CST