Development — OLE DB

This section describes issues associated with OLE DB development.

Topics

• Features Not Supported (OLE DB)

Features Not Supported (OLE DB)

Oracle Provider for OLE DB does not support the following features when connecting to Exadata Express:

• IRowsetFastLoad interface

• Any authentication besides username/password

• Client Result Cache

• Data types:

  • BFILE

  • VARCHAR2 with increased size limit to 32 KB

    VARCHAR2 of sizes up to 4 KB are supported.

• Distributed transactions