Alex, Oracle 8i broke DCOracle's support for LOBs; DCOracle primarily uses OCI 7 (Oracle 7) calls, and Oracle 8i enforces a restriction that OCI 8 objects cannot be used in the context of an OCI 7 statement.
You can use Oracle 8.0 for this, the restriction isn't enforced until Oracle 8.1.
Hello! thank you for your answer. but does that mean that i can only use LOBS with Oracle 8.0 ? i'm confused. i need to use LOBs. if i use oracle 8.1 can i use LOBS and if yes which Databse adapter do i need? Ciao, Alex -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander G. Schad (Programmer) beehive elektronische medien gmbh -------------------------------------------------------------------------- mailto:ags@beehive.de mailto:service@beehive.de http://www.beehive.de fon: (+49 30) 84 78 20 fax: (+49 30) 84 78 22 99