Delphi Direct ORACLE Access Components

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Release Name: 1.19

Notes:
              DelphiOCI v1.19 Release Announcement!

The DelphiOCI project is happy to announce a new public release.

This is a major bug fix release that addresses many issues discovered in v1.18_2.

See changelog for a list of changes.
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Components for direct (without BDE) access to ORACLE 7.3/8/8i Server from Delphi 4,5,6,7. 
Full implementation of ORACLE BLOB and CLOB fields. 
Possibility to execute stored procedures and parts of PL/SQL code. 
Fast and powerful tables in memory.


Changes:
 * Fixed bug when error message "OCI not properly installed on
    this machine" has beed displayed when the application was 
    run under login that doesn't have Administrator rights.
 * Added public property SQLType that returns the type of the 
    current SQL query (select, insert, delete and so on). The 
    value of this property is available after Prepare call. The 
    property become unavailable after UnPrepare call.
 * The following methods of TAField: DeleteRecord, 
    InsertRecord, Allocate has been moved from protected to 
    public area (to allow create tests on these methods). 
 * Fixed "Access violation" bug in methods TAField.GetAsXXXX 
    if TAField.Allocate has not been called before.
 * Added check Size = 0 into constructor THArrayStringFix.?reateSize(Size:integer).
 * Method THArrayStringFix.IndexOfFrom() does not generate
    exception if parameter Start is out of bounds. The value -1 
    returns instead. 
 * Added tests for the following components: TAOraSQL,   
    TOraSQL, TOraDB, TAParam, TAField, THArrayStringFix.
 * Added check that AOraSQL is opened in method Fetch.
 * The FAQ is updated.
 * The Russian documentation is updated (files TOraDB.html,
    TADatabase.html, TADataSet.html).
 * The documentation of TOraDB and TADatabase components 
    is available on English.
 * The documentation was separated into two parts: English 
    and Russian. Further I am going to support two version of 
    documentation.
 * Fixed bugs in TAOraParam.GetValue.
 * Added support for Int64 in TAOraParam.GetValue and 
    TAOraParam.SetValue.
 * Fixed bug in goodDelphi2Ora (UnMakeGoodDateTime was 
    called with Integer parameter instead of Int64 when type 
    ftoDateTime is asked).