How to connect Forms 6i with MS Access

Question

Dear All:
Can we connect Forms 6i with MS Access? If yes then how? Any document? Any suggestions?
Thanks
Hassan

Answer 1

Thanks Jose for your suggestions:
I am sorry I did not use the search utility of Forum.
Anyway I have connect the Forms 6i with MS Access
I created two text item in a Non-Database block and write following coding on a Push Button:
declare
connection_id EXEC_SQL.CONNTYPE;
cursorID EXEC_SQL.CURSTYPE;
sqlstr VARCHAR2(1000);
d1 VARCHAR2(100);
d2 NUMBER;
nIgn PLS_INTEGER;
nRows PLS_INTEGER := 0;
BEGIN
connection_id := EXEC_SQL.OPEN_CONNECTION('hsn','hsn','odbc:test');
cursorID := EXEC_SQL.OPEN_CURSOR(connection_id);
sqlstr := 'select d1,d2 from abdali ';
EXEC_SQL.PARSE(connection_id, cursorID, sqlstr, exec_sql.V7);
EXEC_SQL.BIND_VARIABLE(connection_id, cursorID, '', '');
EXEC_SQL.DEFINE_COLUMN(connection_id, cursorID, 1, d1, 100);
EXEC_SQL.DEFINE_COLUMN(connection_id, cursorID, 2, d2, 100);
nIgn := EXEC_SQL.EXECUTE(connection_id, cursorID);
WHILE (EXEC_SQL.FETCH_ROWS(connection_id, cursorID) > 0 ) LOOP
nRows := nRows + 1;
EXEC_SQL.COLUMN_VALUE(connection_id, cursorID, 1, :d1);
--EXEC_SQL.COLUMN_VALUE(connection_id, cursorID, 2, :d2);
next_record;
END LOOP;
message(nrows);
IF (nRows <= 0) THEN
TEXT_IO.PUT_LINE ('Warning: query returned no rows');
END IF;
END;
I can retrieve the data from MS Access but there is a problem occured.
The data type of one column in Access is defined as Intiger
I also defined a text item in form as Intiger but when retrieved then it returned following error:
FRM-40735: WHEN-BUTTON-PRESSED trigger raised unhandled exception ORA-306500.
I remarked the following coding it works fine.
EXEC_SQL.COLUMN_VALUE(connection_id, cursorID, 2, :d2);
Any suggestions: I also read the OCA_INFO.pdf but did not find how to handle this type of problem.
If you can help me to find out how to match the data types of both the databases?
Also can I insert the data from a Database Block of Oracle into MS-ACCESS thru write code on the Button.
Thanks for help
Hassan