Oracle OLEDB drive 8i and 9i truncates LONG fields

Anyone,
I have a situation where my Oracle oledb driver truncates LONG fields.
My application that runs queries using the oracle oledb driver.
The query is a join between two tables and includes a LONG as one of the fields retrieved.
When the Cursor Location is set to server the data returned is truncated.
Setting the Cursor Location to Client I can retrieve the complete data under specific cursor and lock types. The Microsoft driver for oracle does not truncate.
Note that a simple query without the join does not cause the problem.
Has anyone else noticed this? I know its quite specific.
Otherwise where do you submit bugs to oracle?
Thanks
Stuart

Hi,
I've got the same problem, i.e. SELECT a LONG RAW column from
joined/unioned tables truncates the column (via OraOleDB).
Unfortunately, setting ChunkSize to 65535 does not help me,
because data in a column are longer, then 64K (and are truncated
to 64K). Please, have you found any solution?
Thanks for any reply ..
Milan

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