Why are you not using Oracle OLEDB?
"Alan Pollard" <alanpollard_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> We run Oracle 8i (soon going to 9i) and interface to a Microsoft
> client application through ADO (ADO -> OLEDB for ODBC -> Microsoft
> ODBC Driver for Oracle).
>
> My main question is whether if there is a way to return columns (or
> stored procedure out params) that are > 4000 characters (but not
> datatype LONG) using the MS OBDC driver for Oracle ?
>
> I'm aware of the following:
> 1) the MS ODBC driver currently supports VARCHAR2 and LONG, but none
> of the LOB datatypes
> 2) VARCHAR2 columns cannot be defined as > 4000, although in PL/SQL
> VARCHAR2 variables can be up to 32767
> 3) we currently use the rowset functionality provided by the MS ODBC
> driver, so have been unable to use the MS OLE DB driver for Oracle
> (not that that's really applicable).
>
> I also have some of 'sub-questions':
> a) is the restriction in the MS drivers due to underlying Net8
> restrictions ?
> b) anyone have any idea if Microsoft is ever likely to support the LOB
> datatypes ? Or support returning PL/SQL VARCHAR2 parameters > 4000 ?
> c) I've heard a rumour that Oracle will discontinue support of the
> LONG datatype...is this true ?
Received on Wed Dec 12 2001 - 02:12:24 CST
