This has a historical reason. When we started developing Direct Oracle Access, compatibility with standard VCL components was not important to us. For the TOracleDataSet component (which you can use as a replacement for TTable, TQuery and TStoredProc components if you want), there are not many different properties, methods and events though. Compared to the BDE datasets the most important difference is that it uses Variables instead of Params.
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Marco Kalter
Allround Automations