by I haven't used RDO2 yet so I can't truly answer this question. What I
have done is access Oracle 7.3 directly from VB5 using the 32 bit ODBC
driver interfacing with SQLNet 2. Normally I use the SQLPassthrough
attribute, so all SQLPlus processing can happen serverside. I have a
feeling this may be what you're looking for since the SQLPassthrough
should have no problem executing a stored procedure. If I get a
chance, I'm going to try playing with some of my stored procedures
executed from VB5.
As for returning a result set, in past applications I have written (in
other languages), to get around SQLscript parsing bugs, I've used the
quick and dirty: Stored procedure doing insert into whatever table,
pull records back, delete records from table. If you're SURE only one
person is doing this at a time, you can truncate instead of delete,
aiding performance and fragmentation.
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 09:55:47 +0100, "Paul Smith"
>Using VB5 with RDO2 and SQL Server I am able to call a stored procedure and
>get a result set returned. This is very straightforward since a SQL Server
>stored procedure can return a result set simply by executing a select
>statement. I am having problems doing the same thing with Oracle 7.3 since
>apparently it requires the use of cursor variables to return the result set
>which as far as I can see RDO does not support.
>I'm sure others have had this problem and would welcome any solutions. I
>would also be interested in knowing which ODBC driver for Oracle is regarded
>as "the best".