What's new in dbExpress driver for Oracle 8.1.0
Nov 15, 2023
- Added support for RAD Studio 12
- Added support for Oracle 23c
- Added support for macOS Sonoma
- Fixed string parameters bug for Oracle 11 and older
- Fixed bug with "Range check error" error on describing FLOAT parameters in Stored Procedure
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 8.0.4 (Mar 29, 2023)
- Added support for RAD Studio 11 Alexandria Release 3
- Improved detection of home directories in recent versions of Oracle
- Now valid exception will be raised instead of AV when memory can't be allocated for the large row count
- Fixed bug with LOBs reading in the Direct mode
- Fixed bug with the ftDateTime parameters
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 8.0.3 (Sep 27, 2022)
- Added support for RAD Studio 11 Alexandria Release 2
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 8.0.2 (Dec 10, 2021)
- Fixed bug with LONG parameters in Oracle 11 and earlier
- Fixed bug with Access Violation when table name is not quoted
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 8.0.1 (Sep 16, 2021)
- RAD Studio 11 Alexandria is supported
- macOS ARM target platform is supported
- Fixed bug with decimal digits getting truncated in parameters
- Fixed bug with string OUT parameters in Oracle 12.1
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 7.3.1 (Jul 16, 2021)
- Oracle 21c is supported
- Data fetch performance in the Direct mode is improved
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 7.2.1 (Jun 10, 2020)
- RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney is supported
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 7.1.2 (Nov 28, 2019)
- Oracle 19c is supported
- Now Trial edition for macOS and Linux is fully functional
- Bug with scale for FLOAT data type is fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 7.0.1 (Aug 13, 2019)
- macOS 64-bit is supported
- Linux 64-bit is supported
- Release 2 for RAD Studio 10.3 Rio, Delphi 10.3 Rio, and C++Builder 10.3 Rio is now required
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 6.11.16 (Dec 12, 2018)
- RAD Studio 10.3 Rio is supported
- Oracle 18c is supported
- OS authentication in the Direct mode is supported
- Performance of data fetching in the Direct mode is improved
- Performance of describing stored procedures in the Direct mode is improved
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 6.10.15 (Apr 28, 2017)
- Driver compilation from source code is fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 6.10.14 (Apr 19, 2017)
- RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo is supported
- Oracle Encryption in the Direct mode is supported
- Oracle Data Integrity in the Direct mode is supported
- Oracle Cloud (DBaaS) in the Direct mode is supported
- Oracle 12c authentication in the Direct mode is supported
- Field size detecting for servers with multi-byte charset when UseUnicode=False is improved
- Now NUMBER data type without fixed scale has precision=39 and scale=39 instead of 38
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 6.9.13 (Dec 8, 2016)
- Oracle Cloud in the Direct mode is supported
- Bug with connection via IPv6 protocol is fixed
- Bug with incorrect field size is fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 6.8.12 (Jun 23, 2016)
- RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin is supported.
- Bug with connection to RAC server is fixed.
- Bug with not receiving the ORA-00028 error on session kill is fixed.
- Bug with the RequiredFields connection option is fixed.
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 6.7.11 (Jun 23, 2016)
- Bug with storing Blob data for Oracle 12c in the Direct mode is fixed.
- Bug with AV on calling TSQLDataSet.Close is fixed.
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 6.7.10 (Jun 23, 2016)
- RAD Studio 10 Seattle is supported.
- Now Trial for Win64 is a fully functional Standard Edition.
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 6.6.9 (Apr 22, 2015)
- RAD Studio XE8 is supported
- Now the Direct mode is supplied as source code
- Bug with TWideMemoField data size is fixed
- Bug with AV in "SELECT NULL FROM ..." statements is fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 6.5.8 (Sep 24, 2014)
- RAD Studio XE7 is supported
- Bug with connection establishing if the client has negative half-hour time zone is fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 6.4.7 (Jun 2, 2014)
- RAD Studio XE6 is supported
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 6.3.6 (Jun 2, 2014)
- Now OraNet.obj and OraNet.o files are supplied for C++Builder
- Bug on connection establishing using Oracle 8, 9, 10.1 clients is fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 6.3.5 (Jun 2, 2014)
- RAD Studio XE5 Update 2 is now required
- Bug with mapping to BCD fields when using TClientDataSet is fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 6.3.4 (Dec 23, 2013)
- Rad Studio XE5 is supported
- Oracle 12c is supported
- Possibility to establish OCI and Direct connections in the same application is supported
- IPv6 protocol support is added
- Bug with object names containing the '$' character is fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 6.2.3 (May 31, 2013)
- Rad Studio XE4 is supported
- Assembly registration without .NET SDK installed is improved
- The 'Unexpected data type 25' error in Delphi 2007 is fixed
- Bug with raising internal "Net Error 1" on reading Lob data types for some encodings in the Direct mode is fixed
- Bug with incorrect detecting constant values length in SELECT expression for UTF8 databases in the Direct mode is fixed
- C++Builder 64-bit for Windows is supported
- Bug with Integer overflow is fixed
- Bug with returning invalid values for OUT parameters is fixed
- Bug with AV on returning OUT parameters is fixed
- Windows 8 is supported
- Data Explorer is supported
- dbExpress 4 metadata is supported
- Bug with connection to Oracle XE with UTF8 charset is fixed
- Bug with DateTime params in Delphi 7 is fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 5.1.3 (Apr 6, 2012)
- Update 4 for RAD Studio XE2, Delphi XE2, and C++Builder XE2 is now required
- Code improvements for avoiding compilation warnings
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 5.1.2 (Dec 28, 2011)
- Update 2 for RAD Studio XE2, Delphi XE2, and C++Builder XE2 is now required
- Mac OS X in RAD Studio XE2 is supported
- Bug with Boolean stored procedure parameters is fixed
- Bug with character ' in comments of PL/SQL blocks is fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 5.0.1 (Nov 9, 2011)
- Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 is supported
- Application development for 64-bit Windows is supported
- FireMonkey application development platform is supported
- Performance on getting indexes is improved
- dclcrdbxXXX.dcp is added to installation
- The RequiredFields option is added
- Getting metadata for NUMBER data type is fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 4.90.25 (May 24, 2011)
- Oracle 9, Oracle 10, and Oracle 11 authentication in the Direct mode is supported
- Case sensitive login and password in the Direct mode is supported
- Unicode login and password in the Direct mode is supported
- Client Identifier in the Direct mode is supported
- BINARY_FLOAT and BINARY_DOUBLE data types representation is improved (now it is TFloatField instead of TBCDField)
- Bug with BCD representation for NUMBER data type is fixed (the UnknownNumberScale parameter specifies scale for NUMBER data type)
- Bug with Unicode set to False for Delphi 2009 - Delphi XE is fixed
- Bug with set RowSetSize in Delphi XE is fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 4.80.24 (Mar 15, 2011)
- Added support for connection with using Service Name in the Direct mode
- Now the DBXERR_INVALIDUSRPASS error code is returned on connection establishing with invalid user name or password
- Fixed bug with overflow in the TBCDField and TFMTBCDField fields
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 4.70.23 (Mar 15, 2011)
- Improving performance on getting indexes information
- Added the UnicodeAsNational connection parameter that allowed sending NVarchar parameters to the server correctly
- Fixed bug with rollback transaction after failed commit
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 4.70.22 (Mar 15, 2011)
- Embarcadero RAD Studio XE suppored
- Added the HomeName parameter for Delphi 2007 and higher
- Fixed the SQLConnection.GetFieldNames method for numeric data types
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 4.50.21 (Mar 15, 2011)
- Fixed bug with getting metadata for column with FLOAT data type
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 4.50.20 (Mar 15, 2011)
- Added support for dbMonitor 3
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 4.50.19 (Nov 4, 2009)
- Bug with fetching BLOB data for Delphi 2010 fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 4.50.18 (Oct 3, 2009)
- Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010 supported
- Added UnicodeClobParams extended driver option that enables ftOraClob parameters with Unicode values
- Several bugs related to using the driver with Datasnap componets fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 4.40.16 (Oct 3, 2009)
- Exception on disconnect caused by DBMonitor check, fixed
- Access violation on getting Columns metadata fixed
- Bug with no digits after decimal point in BCD fields under Delphi 2009 Update 4 fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 4.40.15 (Oct 3, 2009)
- Added the UseDateParams extended driver option that maps ftTimeStamp parameters to the Oracle DATE data type
- Bug with not using IntegerPrecision and FloatPrecision options for parameters of TSQLStoredProc fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 4.40.0.14 (Jun 24, 2009)
- Added driver compiled with Delphi 2007 for using under Windows 98
- Access violation with LOB parameters fixed
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 4.40.0.13 (Oct 20, 2008)
- Support for Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009 added
- Added full Unicode support for RAD Studio 2009
- Optimized LOB processing in Direct mode
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 4.20.0.5 (Nov 14, 2007)
- Complete support for dbExpress version 4 in Delphi 2007 for Win32 and C Builder 2007 added
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2007 support added
New in dbExpress driver for Oracle 3.20 (Jul 6, 2007)
- Added limited Delphi 2007 support for Win32