Hi
I have a Visual Basic application that uses ADO to access an Oracle
database. I have the latest 9.x ODBC drivers installed, and SQL*Plus
tells me I'm looking at Oracle 8i release 8.1.7.4.1 through an Oracle
client version 9.2.0.1.0. I'm assuming that these should be
compatible...
The application has, until now, been running on the MS ODBC drivers
for Oracle, but we'd like to get away from using LONGs, and use the
Oracle ODBC drivers instead.
Trouble is, I'm getting some strange things happening. When I retrieve
a LONG from the database, any character in the range X'80' to X'9F' is
being returned as X'BF'. This, of course, tends to have a distinctly
deleterious effect on the readability of stored binary documents.
X'80' to X'9F' appear to be associated with National Language Support,
so I thought it might relate to the NLS options in the ODBC setup,
which offers "Numeric Settings" of "Use Oracle NLS Settings", "Use
Microsoft Regional Settings" or "Use US Settings". I've tried all
three, it makes no difference.
Has anyone else suffered from this? Has anyone suggestions for coping
with the problem? Or do I just have to learn to live with the MS ODBC
driver?
Thanks
Robert Smith
ubik
at
shaw
dot
ca
