DOA without Net8?

[DavidH]

Is it possible to have a DOA session on a form, without a proper OCI installed? (As long as you do not set the connected property to true, of course.)

Maybe I can even detect if OCI is available or not?

 

[Marco Kalter]

Direct Oracle Access will attempt to initialize Net8 when the first session connects to the database, so you will not have any problems using the components on a PC where Net8 is not installed as long as you do not connect.

To test if Net8 (or SQL*Net) is installed, call InitOCI (located in the OracleCI unit). This procedure will raise an exception with an appropriate message if Net8 is not installed.

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Marco Kalter
Allround Automations