Re: Access/ODBC/Oracle Outer Joins

From: Alan N Turner <anturner_at_sc1500.dseg.ti.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 12:36:33 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Jun23.123633.21483_at_mksol.dseg.ti.com>


In article <2ua48h$1i4_at_news.tamu.edu>, rick_at_billnext.tamu.edu (Rick Huff) writes:
|>In article <Jun22.173349.84186_at_acs.ucalgary.ca> mortis_at_acs.ucalgary.ca
 (Jeremy
|>Eric Mortis) writes:
|>>
|>> We cannot get outer joins to work when accessing an Oracle
|>> database from Microsoft Access through ODBC. Does anybody else have this
|>> problem? Does anybody have a fix or workaround?
|>>
|>
|>What problem are you having exactly?
|>
|>At our site, I watched the SQL*Net between Oracle and MS-Access and
 discovered
|>that Access was requesting tables one by one and then doing the join
 locally.
|>
|>What I did to work around this problem was to create a view that did
 the join
|>on the server and then used the view instead of the individual tables.
|>
|>Does this help you?
|>--
|>Rick Huff, Senior Systems Analyst (409) 847-9392 (rick_at_billnext.tamu.edu)
|>CIS, Computing and Information Services, Texas A&M University
                    

Also, on a query sent by the Jet database engine through ODBC, Access allows any number of inner joins, but at most one outer join. Because of this, Jet may perform some parts of the query locally. Jet will also perform an outer join locally if the form property "Allow Updating" is set to "Any Tables".   

Cheers,


Alan N. Turner                          "The comments expressed here are my
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                 Received on Thu Jun 23 1994 - 14:36:33 CEST

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