LC 7.0.6 Comercial no oracle support

[NtroP]

I started with LC community edition (7.0.6) and realized that it provided no support for connecting to an oracle database. So I sprung for the commercial edition and when I use:

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put revOpenDatabase( "oracle", pDatabaseHost, pDatabaseName, pDatabaseUserName,pDatabasePassword ) into tConnectionID

I get: revdberr,invalid database type

I'm on OS X running LiveCode Commercial Edition 7.0.6 Build 10038

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[NtroP]

I'm sorry I paid for the commercial version now. It doesn't do what was promised and all I get for support are crickets chirping. How do I get a refund?

[FourthWorld]

The dialog box you showed includes the email address for support. While this user-to-user forum can be helpful, for issues like this you may want to write to the company directly for assistance.

[dave.kilroy]

Hi NtroP, as Richard says contact LiveCode directly, I bet they'll be helpful - let us know how you get on...

It seems that the folks at LiveCode have introduced a bug (or bugs?) into their database drivers recently - just today I discovered that LC 7.1(dp1) can't connect to sqlite when in iOS (http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15619) - in Android and everywhere else its fine - I'm guessing they've done something to trash some of their database drivers for some platforms

And looking in quality.livecode.com I see that sqlite has also been failing (or was failing and is now fixed) in LiveCode Server (http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15513) - so I suspect we've all been hit by 'different flavours' of the same bug

Kind regards

Dave

[NtroP]

Thanks. I've submitted a ticket but haven't heard anything back yet. If/when I do I'll post it.

[LCNeil]

Hi NitroP,

Questions on the public forums can sometimes slip through the net so, in instances like this, I would recommend contacting support directly (as you did) or posting a question on the dedicated commercial forum.

With that being said, there does seem to be an issue with connecting to Oracle databases in the latest versions of LiveCode. I was able to test this by installing Oracle Database Express and then attempting to connect to this. This resulted in the
revdberr,invalid database type message, no matter what combination of LC and revOpenDatabase I used.

As this is the case, I have submitted a bug report with our QC team who will be able to investigate this further-

http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15626

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention.

Kind Regards,

Neil Roger
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LiveCode Support Team ~ http://www.livecode.com
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[NtroP]

Thanks! Since I'm new to LiveCode, how should I watch for a fix? Will I be notified? Will there be a patch or just the next minor release update?

[dave.kilroy]

NtrOP, if you haven't already, go to the bug report Neil created (http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15626) and add yourself to the CC list (indicated by the red box in the screenshot below):

Then, whenever someone makes a further comment or makes some change in the report you will get an email...

Dave

PS: just to give you a temporary work-around - could you use an older version of LiveCode until they bring out the next version?