>Hi,
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>What are LOBs?
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>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?
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>Paul
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>

LOB stand for Large schema OBjects. Oracle 8i has new data types that allow you to store objects in tables in addition to normal data types. The object data types are called LOBs.

I've heard a few people recommend MS drivers too, but I have yet to be able to get them to work.