Re: Strange behavior of Personal Oracle 7

Stefan Fallet <stfallet_at_Herrenberg.netsurf.de> wrote:

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>Our Problem:
>We are running Personal Oracle 7 (7.1.4.1.0) on Microsoft Windows
>3.1(Amercian, German and Spanish versions). We are using ODBC from
>Intersolve and Oracle to connect to the database. Our hardware was 486/66
>with 32 Mb RAM. We tried it on 4 different machines. Every machine had
>the same problems.
>We have a VB (Visual Basic) application whitch connects via ODBC to
>Oracle. The apllication runs perfect if it connects onto a Netware Oracle
>7 database. If it connects to PO7 it show strange behavior. Listboxes
>don't get filled. DataControls act strange. We tested it with a simple
>program in VB. The programm connects to the DB, opens a dynaset, reads
>the rows from EMP and inserts each ename into a listbox. The listbox does
>not get filled (debug printouts show, that all the rows are being
>fetched). We tried linking a table into ACCESS. ACCESS repeatedly crashed
>with a GPF.
>We traced the ODBC communication. It showed, that a SQLColumns statement
>(called by the ORACLE ODBC) was producing bad pointers.
>

There is a patch for the sql2tt.dll file. You can find it in a self extracting archive at:ftp://www.oracle.com/pub/www/power/windows/sql2tt.exe

George Mari
Database Software Consulting, Inc.
Email: marig_at_wwa.com Received on Fri Oct 06 1995 - 00:00:00 CET