dbExpress driver for Oracle History

4.20.8 07-Mar-08

Bug with infinite reconnect fixed
Access violation with multiple database connections from an application fixed
Bug with handling zero values in BCD and FmtBCD parameters fixed
Memory leak with BCD and FmtBCD parameters fixed

4.20.7 07-Feb-08

Bug with ftBCD, ftFmtBCD parameters and setting NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS using ALTER SESSION fixed

4.20.6 12-Dec-07

Memory leak in the driver fixed
Added support for opening TSQLDataSet with DbxCommandType = DbxMetaData
Added the DbxOdaDriverLoader unit in DbxOda Source Code edition to enable embedding the driver into applications

4.20.5 29-Oct-07

Several bugs in installation fixed
Bug with boolean parameters fixed

4.20.4 10-Oct-07

CodeGear RAD Studio 2007 supported
Bug with losing parameters in TSQLStoredProc fixed

4.00.3 20-Aug-07

Bug with updating BLOB fields in Direct mode fixed
Bug with retrieving metadata in Delphi 2007 fixed

4.00.2 06-Jul-07

Complete support for dbExpress version 4 in Delphi 2007 for Win32 and C++Builder 2007 added
General performance improved

3.20.9 03-Apr-07

Added limited support for Delphi 2007 for Win32

3.10.8 22-Mar-07

Bug with access violation on connection loss fixed
Bug with access violation in multithreaded applications on Oracle 8 client fixed
Bug with truncation of CLOB values when using multibyte character set fixed
Bug with processing long field names in dbexpoda30.dll fixed

3.10.7 25-Dec-06

Removed workaround for dbExpress bug with Memo field value truncation (this bug is fixed in BDS 2006 Update 2)
Bug with driver installation fixed

3.10.6 13-Oct-06

Bug with processing FLOAT fields fixed

3.10.5 31-Aug-06

Added support for Turbo Delphi, Turbo Delphi for .NET and Turbo C++
Performance of fetching numeric types improved
Bug with executing stored procedures for Oracle Net driver fixed
Bug with string parameters for UTF-8 database fixed

3.00.4 07-Jul-06

Error handling added in ISQLCommand.prepare method implementation
Bug with processing NULL smallint values fixed

3.00.3 13-Apr-06

Bug with multithreaded access to Oracle 8 through same client fixed
Bug with RowID fields in Oracle 10.2.0.1 fixed
Bug with exception on calling GetFieldNames method fixed

3.00.2 09-Feb-06

Bug with invalid processing of widestring parameters (Delphi 2006) fixed

3.00.1 02-Feb-06

Delphi 2006 supported
Unicode support with coUseUnicode added (Delphi 2006)

2.50.5 6-Jul-05

Support of poFetchBlobsOnDemand option of TDataSetProvider added

2.50.4 13-May-05

Additional Prepared option added to TSQLConnection
Fixed bug with exception, raised on transaction operation fail
Bug with TParam.AsDate fixed (6949)

2.50.3 12-Apr-05

Performance of LOBs for Net option improved (6554)
Bug with wrong connection parameters on Kylix fixed (6667)

2.50.2 29-Mar-05

Bug with string params in UFT8 database fixed (6435)
Memory leak with TimeStamp parameter fixed (6408)
Bug with stored procedure parameters order on Oracle 8.0.5 fixed (6110)

2.50.1 27-Jan-05

Delphi 2005 supported
Performance of Net option improved
ARRAY fields supported
Bugs with editing OBJECT fields fixed (see ReadMe.html)
Bug with Net connection in multithreaded applications fixed
Bug with reading CLOB parameters from stored proc fixed
Bugs with FloatPrecision and BCDPrecision in TCRSQLConnection fixed

2.10.0 31-Aug-04

Ability to re-establish failed connection before executing query added
Ability to configure type of fields using SmallIntPrecision, IntegerPrecision, FloatPrecision, BCDPrecision added
Ability to trace SQL statements longer then 1024 with TSQLMonitor added
New time trial limitation

2.05 30-Jun-04

coIntegerPrecision, coSmallIntPrecision parameters added

2.00 14-May-04

Support for Delphi 8 added
Oracle 10g support added
Character conversion supported in Oracle 9i with Net option
Unicode character data supported with Net option
Performance improved

1.92 27-Feb-04

Bug with describing stored procedure fields fixed(3776)
Bug with TIMESTAMP parameter in stored procedure fixed(3850)
Bug with varchar2(4000) parameters using OCI fixed(4060)

1.91 10-Dec-03

Bug with ISQLMetaData.getColumns fixed(3755)

1.90 24-Nov-03

Bug with creating query if TSimpleDataSet.CommandType = ctTable fixet(3656)
Bug with UseQuoterChar parameter fixed(3681)
Bug with ISQLMetaData.getColumns fixed(3692)
Bug with TimeStamp parameter fixed (3699)

1.89 28-Oct-03

Additional option Charset to TCRSQLConnection available(3598)
Additional option RoleName to TCRSQLConnection available
Bug with using fractional part of Float fields fixed(3604)

1.88 17-Oct-03

Read TimeStamp precesion bug fixed (3284)
Bug with using DB Monitor in multithread applications fixed (3244)
Bug with stored procedure has not paremeters not appears in the list StoredProcName fixed (3552)
Bug in ISQLMetaData interface realization fixed
Additional option FetchAll to TCRSQLConnection available

1.87 22-Jul-03

Bug with ftTimeStamp parameter fixed

1.86 06-Jun-03

Bug with error handling while cursor fetching fixed
Bug with getting null status from Bcd fields fixed

1.85 21-May-03

Bug with monitoring fixed
Bug with describe parameters for stored procedures fixed
Bug with fetching numeric(*) type fixed

1.84 04-Apr-03

Additional option TrimFixedChar to TSQLConnection available
Bug with using DB Monitor fixed
Bug with LONG parameters fixed
Bug with RAW parameters fixed
Bug with DATE parameters in OCI9 and Oracle server 8.0.5 fixed
Bug with long number fixed
Bug with boolean parameters fixed

1.83 24-Feb-03

Bug with BCD fields fixed (2759)
Bug with long field names (more then 31 chars) fixed (2778)
Bug with '?' sign in string literals fixed (2797)

1.82 30-Jan-03

Bug with TIMESTAMP datatype in OUT parameters fixed
Bug with number expression represented as BCD fields fixed (2577)

1.81 26-Nov-02

Bug with string parameters fixed (2552)
DBMonitor client implementation moved to COM server
Additional option CharLength to TCRSQLConnection available

1.80 12-Nov-02

TCRSQLConnection component added
EnableBCD option is True by default now
Bug with Object fields support fixed
Support of DB Monitor added
Design-time packages for OraTools Add-in and DB Monitor added

1.71 17-Oct-02

Bug with AutoCommit fixed (2123)
Bug with double execute fixed (2102)
SimpleDataSet demo added

1.70 02-Oct-02

Delphi 7 support added
Oracle9 TIMESTAMP datatype support added
Now there is no additional roundtrip to server for select-list describe (OCIStmtExecute(DESCRIBE_ONLY) call).

1.60 04-Sep-02

Kylix3 support
Bug with memory allocation in multithreaded evironment fixed (1572)
Support for RowsetSize option added (1710)
Fixed bug with stored proc IN/OUT string parameters
Additional option UseQuoteChar to TSQLConnection available

1.53 22-Aug-02

Fixed bug with getting metadata in SQLMetaData.getTables

1.52 12-Jul-02

Additional option EnableBCD to TSQLConnection available
Fixed bug with binding parameters on Oracle9i client

1.51 05-Jul-02

Additional option LongStrings to TSQLConnection available
Additional option InternalName to TSQLConnection available

1.50 06-Jun-02

Driver version for Linux created
Source code available.
Limitation for trial version added.
TSQLMonitor support
Bug with StoredProc call on Oracle7 client. (1261)
Bug with date parameter fixed. (1267)

1.14 15-Apr-02

Bug with changing entry points in dll fixed. I.e when TSQLConnection.GetDriverFunc is set to getSQLDriverORA then getSQLDriverORANET.
Second connect in NET mode bug fixed.
Driver in NET mode can work with stored procedures now. (0932)
Bug with TSQLStoredProc.ExecProc call time increase fixed. (1034)

1.13 08-Apr-02

NET option is added to Demos. (0934)
Server name edit is added to Demos. (0935)
AccessViolation with parameter null values removed (ISQLCommand.SetParameter) (0985)

1.12 23-Mar-02

Transaction support bug fixed. TSQLConnection.StartTransaction raised error. Now it doesn't. (0828)
Metadata queries modified for compatibility with Oracle below 8i. (0819)

1.00 28-Jan-02

First release of driver