Wouldn't that be a problem with the driver? I have used reports that use an
ODBC Oracle driver that can read LOBS.
Jim
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"Martin Haltmayer" <Martin.Haltmayer_at_0800-einwahl.de> wrote in message
news:3A587A8F.9022DE4F_at_0800-einwahl.de...
> Hi Mike,
>
> It is not true that you can always use a LOB instead of LONG (RAW).
Example:
> MDAC 2.5 (OLE DB) which does not know anything about LOBs but knows how to
> handle LONGs.
>
> The reason is that LONGs do not use handles.
>
> It took us quite an effort to pass our BLOBs as a LONG RAW parameter in a
> procedure. The solution was to use a global temporary table for
conversion.
>
> Martin
>
>
Received on Sun Jan 07 2001 - 10:52:19 CST
