Hi,

What are LOBs?

I have seen MS ODBC driver for Oracle recommened here at the UT over Oracle's ODBC drivers. Would the MS one have had this problem?

Paul


>After much hair-pulling and name-calling I've managed to track down the problem with the help of our Oracle DBA. It turns out this was not a VFP problem at all, but an ODBC problem. It appears VFP has real problems with Oracle LOB's. Turning off LOB's in the ODBC config fixes the following problems in VFP:
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>1. Invalid argument in OCI Call errors
>2. Oracle long field types displaying trash characters in views