OCI question

Is it just me or does Oracle's OCI library suck? I'm writing an application, and OCI doesn't even return the number of columns from a query. Does anyone know how I can write a "fetch" function that after given a SQL statement, I can call fetch(), which will retrieve any results pending? The problem I have is trying to figure out how many columns there will be, and to allocate memory for the define structure per column, without losing performance.

Any help very much appreciated.
-Simon Lee Received on Mon Jul 29 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST