Direct Oracle Access 4.1.1.0 ============================ Installation ============ To install the software, simply run the included executable.

It will ask you for the product code that you have received from us. After this, all files will be copied to a "Direct Oracle Access 410" subdirectory of the Delphi or C++Builder root directory, for example: C:\Program Files\Borland\Delphi7\Direct Oracle Access 410 This directory contains a setup program, which can be automatically started. The setup program will install the components and help file into the Delphi or C++Builder environment. If you are currently using a previous version of Direct Oracle Access, you do not need to uninstall it. The setup program will replace all existing files. Documentation and examples can be found in the Doc and Demos subdirectories of the Direct Oracle Access directory. Restrictions ============ The following restrictions currently exist in the Delphi and C++Builder 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009 version: - Win32 only, no support yet for .NET and C#. - There is no integrated help. The help file is provided in the old format. Upgrading from a previous version ================================= If you are upgrading from a previous version, you can follow the same procedure as mentioned above. If for some reason you wish to revert back to your original version after installing 4.1, you first need to uninstall the current version via 'Add/Remove Programs' in the Control Panel. Possible compatibility issues with previous versions ==================================================== The following behavior has changed: - TOracleDataSet.QBEMode no longer uses variables for QBE values, but only uses literal values - TOracleQuery.Optimize now implicitly closes queries when done - Timestamp fields are no longer queried as strings (TOracleSession.Preferences.TimestampAsString) - CLOB's and BLOB's are now passed as temporary LOB during TOracleDataSet.Post (TOracleSession.Preferences.TemporaryLOB) The package names have changed from doa40xx.* to doa41xx.*, where xx indicates the name and version of your compiler (e.g. d5 for Delphi 5, or c4 for C++Builder 4). Possible compatibility issues with the Delphi 2009 version ========================================================== - TOracleSession.Preferences.ConvertUTF is now restricted to cuUTF8ToUTF16 to

accommodate the new string type - TOracleSession.BytesPerCharacter is now bcAutoDetect by default - When connected to a database with a Unicode database charactset, variables are declared as Unicode by default New in 4.1.1 ============ * Support for the ODAC Instant Client added * Support for merge, with, purge and flashback commands added to TOracleScript * TOracleScript performance improvement for large commands * Setting the same UTF16 variable twice could lead to extra characters New in 4.1.0 ============ * Unicode support * Fixed bug when checking for changed values of aliased fields * Fixed AV when using calculated fields * Fixed QBE issue with 'not null' * LogonDatabase was cleared when LogonUsername contains just username/password