Re: Oracle7 32-bit Odbc driver for Visual Basic 4.0

There is patch available for the ODBC driver on the Web from the Oracle support desk. Which solves a number of issues including trying to update/ insert a column > the 255 char

Stephen

> rkoppang_at_iadfw.net (Roger Koppang) wrote in article
 <31d86f35.1021929_at_news.airmail.net>...
> >>There seems to be a lot of difficulty using the Oracle ODBC driver
> >>with VB4. I have heard that it has something to do with the driver
> >>being Level 1 compatible but VB using Level 2 calls. Either way, it
> >>doesn't seem to work.
> >>
> >>I think this is Oracle's way of moving everyone to Oracle Objects for
> >>OLE (assuming they ever finish version 2).
 

> >Not true. Oracle has a 32bit ODBC driver. Check out www.oracle.com.
 Also,
> >OO4O 32bit was beta and I think may be production now. Again, check out
> >www.oracle.com.
>
> Well they tell you right on the web page that the Oracle drivers are
> ODBC version 1 level 1.
>
> I have those drivers working with VB4-32 but I can't get them to work
> with the AppendChunk method to put more than 16k of data into a LONG
> RAW column in the Oracle database. Anything greater than 16k and I
> get a GPF when I hit the update method for the dynaset. Any ideas on
> this one? If it would help I can post the code, but I didn't happen
> to bring it home from work with me today. This same code is working
> flawlessly with VB3 today.
>
> Roger Koppang
> rkoppang_at_iadfw.net
>
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  Received on Mon Jul 15 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST