New Features

Oracle Objects for OLE 10g  Release 1 (10.1) has the following new and updated features

· Support for Oracle Grids

OO4O is grid-enabled, allowing developers to take advantage of Oracle database grid support without having to make changes to their application code.

· Support for New Datatypes

Oracle Objects for OLE release 10.1 provides support for the BINARY_DOUBLE and BINARY_FLOAT datatypes introduced in Oracle Database 10g . Instances of these types can be fetched from the database or passed as input or output variables to SQL statements and PL/SQL blocks, including stored procedures and functions.

The following constants have been added in the oraconst.txt to bind the BINARY_DOUBLE and BINARY_FLOAT datatypes.

Constant	Oracle Datatype	Value
ORATYPE_BDOUBLE	BINARY_DOUBLE	101
ORATYPE_BFLOAT	BINARY_FLOAT	100

· Support for Multiple Homes

Oracle Objects for OLE can be installed in Multiple Oracle Homes, starting with release 10.1. However, being a COM component, only one instance can be active on the computer. This means that the current (latest) installation renders the previous one inactive.

In order to make multiple homes available, the use of a HOMEID is required. Also,some of the OO4O files include a version number.

Please see the following: OO4O Redistributable Files and Tuning and Customization re: Windows Registry subkey.


See Also:

· Features Added in Release 9.2.0.4

· Features Added in Release 9.0.1

· Features Added in Release 8.1.7