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I'm running DOA 3.4.3 against an Oracle 8.04 server using Delphi 5 (actually there is an Asta server between but it has no role in this). I'm confronted with a problem I can not solve. Text stored in a 'long' gets converted is some sort of ASCII representation and shows like '6264..' after...

Should have thought about that myself.. I discovered a client that had a connection to the same table, I didn't think it had a lock but killing that program got me further. After tis I set the NullLOBIsEmpty to true and it looks like it is functioning. thanks, Martin [This message has been...

Using Oracle 8.0.4 (on NT) with DOA 3.4.3 I've create this sequence of code: DM.ExecQuery.CloseAll; DM.ExecQuery.SQL.Clear; DM.ExecQuery.DeleteVariables; DM.ExecQuery.SQL.Add('select '+tbl+'.'+'*, '+tbl+'.rowid'+' from '+tbl+' '+whr); DM.ExecQuery.Open; DM.ExecQuery.Edit...

I need to get the Delphi equivalents of the Oracle datatypes in a table (not known beforehand which table). TOracleQuery has a procedure describe which gets the results but the help file fails to mention where the results are stored. Is there an easy way to get this done?

I'm not aware of this procedure, were could I find it?

no problem (I guess I knew the answer). Just for my curiosity: why are the methods/properties named so different compared to the BDE?

After some initial tests I would like to start with a conversion of a major app. As it has about 600 TQuery's I'm rather unwilling to recode it all by hand. Is there any tool which assists DOA users in this process? tia, Martin

Hi, I,m starting to use the ASTA/DOA combination just now. Would anyone care to share his comments, tips etc.? regards Martin