MS Access pass-through query for Oracle produces incorrect data type field

[RedSlayer]

MS Access 2003
Oracle 10g
Windows 7

I am basically running data updates every night into local MS Access tables from source data tables in Oracle.

This worked fine, until some change on the network which produced a timeout error for all append queries that used pass-through queries.

In order to work around this, I decided to first drop all tables and then run make table queries (SELECT INTO) with a pass-through query to the Oracle tables, which somehow avoided the timeouts.

Problem now is, some of the resultant Access tables do not have the same base data types as the Oracle tables. E.g. integer fields are created as text.

Is there some way of forcing the resultant data-types?
Is this maybe an Oracle driver problem?


Thnx,

Red

 

[RedSlayer]

I have solved this - used a different ODBC connection string (rather than ODBC MS Oracle), which now replicates data types ok from the source table.