Yes, only I think having a uni-directional dataset is going to limit it's usefulness. I have now got my TOracleDataset reading all fields except the BLOB, and a TQuery querying to retrieve the BLOB separately on the dataset's OnDataChange event, and it all works very nicely. I was very impressed...
I have an application which retrieves large bitmap BLOBs (434kb per record) from a database table for onscreen display, all stored in a TOracleDataset. The problem I have is that by viewing each in turn, they are ALL then cached in local memory, and given their size, this is quite a drain on...