The Oracle Client (ODP.NET) that we are using to build a major web project put us in a really stupid bind last week, ultimately causing me to waste two days in search of something that wasn't really going to work in the first place. I'm on something of an async/await binge with this project, since in C# and ASP.NET it's really easy to implement and possibly gives you great scalability benefits. So, one of the first things... Read more >
My coworkers Rajit and Dave and I have been spending an inordinate amount of time over the last few days looking for a really annoying error in one of our apps. The exception message reads like this: Could not load file or assembly 'Oracle.DataAccess' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. Yep, that's right, we're using ORACLE as our database. I assure you, this is not by choice. We've... Read more >
Our organization, like many other medium-to-large companies, uses a central ORACLE database for most of our company-specific data. By itself this is not an issue (according to management), but problems arise from two things: We are almost exclusively a Microsoft shop. The version of ORACLE we are using is very old (8+ years). Our need to interface with ORACLE is what drove me and my team to develop a mapping system that allowed us to map ASP.NET DataTables to... Read more >
