INFO: Supportability of the Microsoft ODBC Driver/ OLE DB Provider for Oracle w.r.t Oracle 8.x

• Microsoft ODBC for Oracle (Build 2.573.3513), version 2.5
• Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle, versions 2.0, 2.1

SUMMARY

The Microsoft ODBC Driver for Oracle (msorcl32.dll) version 2.573.4202 and the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle (msdaora.dll) version 2.10.4202 have not been tested with Oracle 8i. So connectivity to Oracle 8i is not supported with this version or earlier versions of the Microsoft Driver/Provider.

They have been successfully tested to run with the Oracle 8.x (excluding Oracle 8i) client software going against an Oracle 8.x server.

MORE INFORMATION

The Microsoft ODBC Driver for Oracle version 2.573.4202 and the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle version 2.10.4202 do not support any Oracle 8.x specific (including Oracle 8i) features. Oracle 8.x specific datatypes are one such example of an unsupported feature. Datatypes such as CLOB, BLOB, BFILE, NCHAR, NCLOB, NVARCHAR2, which were introduced with Oracle 8.x, are not supported using this version or earlier versions of the Microsoft Driver/Provider.

REFERENCES

Information on the system requirements needed to use the Microsoft ODBC Driver/OLEDB Provider can be obtained from the MSOracle32Readme.txt file for the Driver/Provider.

Additional query words: Oracle8i msorcl32.dll msdaora.dll Oracle8.x

Keywords : kbDriver kbODBC kbOLEDB kbOracle kbProvider kbGrpMDAC kbGrpODBC kbGrpOLEDB
Version : WINDOWS:2.0,2.1,2.5
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo