On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:10:39 +0200, "Eitan"
<no_spam_please_at_nospam.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am using V.B. with Oracle 9i (on the server side).
>(on the client side there is oracle 8i).
>I did rebooot the server computer, and also the database.
>
>Before restrarting the computer, I did the following :
>select 'ABC' from dual
>The result was : 'ABC'.
>After restrarting the computer (server), I did the same :
>select 'ABC' from dual
>The result was : 'ABC ' (with spaces - no. length of the whole
>string was 32 bytes once, but it was not a fixed length after).
>
>I have checked this out on the client and also on the server computer, but
>the problem exists on both computers.
>When I run the sql query from sql-plus (with no ODBC) the sql result was the
>same as before rebooting (without spaces).
>
>I don't understand why this, but since this was a strange behaviour both on
>client and server, with no other new program installed on it after
>rebooting, it can be maybe on the ODBC server side.
>
>What should I check out, and how can I fix that problem ?
>
>Thanks :)
>
>
so the problem is your odbc driver, maybe due to a pending upgrade.
Enabling tracing in the ODBC admin applet and see what happens.
--
Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
Received on Fri Aug 27 2004 - 17:16:08 CDT
