Re: Oracle Objects for OLE 2.3 for Download

2 questions:

1. Does this require any other oracle server products other than the standard NT oracle database running? i.e. does it need something like Oracle Web server?
2. Will this be a cost item in the future? If so what price range?

Oracle Objects for OLE wrote:

> Oracle Objects for OLE 2.3 (Trial version) is available for download from
> the following sites
>
> Minimal:
>
> ftp://external-ftp.us.oracle.com/dev_tools/outgoing/oo4o/win32/23runtime/
>
> Full:
>
> http://www.oracle.com/products/trial/html/trial.html
>
> The new features introduced in V2.3 are
>
> 1) Support of Database connection pooling ( for ASP application)
> 2) Performance improvement in Dynaset field access
> 3) Reduced network roundtrip for executing Dynaset's SQL statement
> 4) More bug fixes
>
> Here is the short description for Oracle Objects for OLE
>
> Oracle Objects For OLE (OO4O) is a product designed to allow easy access to
> data stored in Oracle databases from any programming or scripting language
> that supports the Microsoft COM Automation and ActiveX technology. This
> includes Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual Basic For Applications (VBA), IIS
> Active Server Pages (VBScript and JavaScript), and others.
>
> The OO4O Automation Server is a set of COM Automation objects for connecting
> to Oracle database servers, executing SQL statements and PL/SQL blocks, and
> accessing the results.
>
> Unlike other COM-based database connectivity APIs, such as Microsoft ADO,
> the OO4O Automation Server has been developed and evolved specifically for
> use with Oracle database servers. It provides an optimized API for accessing
> features that are unique to Oracle and are otherwise cumbersome or
> inefficient to use from ODBC or OLE DB-based components.
>
> OO4O provides key features for efficiently and easily accessing Oracle
> databases in environments ranging from the typical two-tier client/server
> applications (developed in Visual Basic or Excel, for example) to
> application servers deployed in application server environments such as web
> server applications in Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). Features
> include:
>
> - Support for execution of PL/SQL anonymous blocks and stored
> procedures. This includes support for for all data types allowed for
> input/output parameters of PL/SQL stored procedures incluing PL/SQL
> cursors.
> - Free threaded objects and connection pooling for developing efficient
> web server applications
> - Support for array inserts and updates << link to description of
> SQLStmt and Parameter interfaces
Received on Thu Nov 05 1998 - 00:00:00 CET