I think that it is fair to say that there are no good books out on programming against Oracle using .Net. I'm not aware of any on ADO either :(. That said there are a number of forums/fora? on OTN that dealing with windows programming. The OLEDB drivers - and especially the ODP.Net provider from Oracle also come with sample code. My pet gripe is that - probably because everyone in that environment learns to code for MSSQL - developers don't have a clue about bind variable usage. I believe that this is common in the brave new Java world as well. On Fri, 28 May 2004 11:20:44 -0500, DENNIS WILLIAMS <dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Niall > You wrote: > is there any reason you can't use ado or .net? The support for these > is a lot better. > > Cool! Now, where do I learn how to write ADO code that uses Oracle well? > None of the ADO / .NOT books I have encountered tell you how to write code > that won't cause problems in Oracle. It seems if the developer leaves the > defaults set, ADO tends to think it is talking to a flat file and pulls the > entire Oracle table across the network. I have one developer that seems to > understand how to make it work but whenever I ask him to explain it he > launches into an enthusiastic explanation and I find myself waking up > refreshed and it is dark outside and everyone else has gone home. Probably > how the developers think about asking me for an explanation of ORA-1555's. > > Dennis Williams > DBA > Lifetouch, Inc. > dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------