Problems with oraOLEDB.Oracle Provider

Question

Hello,
I recently installed the oraOLEDB.Oracle Provider with no issues. When using an oledbdatareader from a .net app we are receiving weird results when pulling more than 100 records from Oracle 8 database. The reader outputs unreadable data after the 100 record. Interestingly enough this only happens when we select individual fields for example select user_id from users. When we do select * from users everything is fine. Also In this particular database the encoding is UTF8. When we pull from another Oracle 8 instance with no encoding we receive no distorted results. Anybody ever encountered or heard of anything like this?
thanks in advance,
jim.

Answer 1

Your procedure has a single OUT parameter ... and yet it appears you are trying to stuff something into it ... that is never going to work. Additionally everything else about your stored procedure would have gotten you a FAIL grade were you been in my beginning PL/SQL class.
The syntax, a cursor loop, is obsolete and has been for more than 10 years.
The formatting and use of case makes even the few lines written hard to read.
And either no commit ever takes place or you are trying to do incremental commits in origseq: Both of which are bad practice.
This code should use BULK COLLECT to collect all relevant records into an array and then pass the array to origseq ... no loops ... and end with a commit.
Demo here: http://www.morganslibrary.org/reference/array_processing.html