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Hello,

I'm using an Oracle Datasource via ODBC (Oracle 11g ODBC Driver).

When I clear (deleted the contents) of a date field in OpenOffice base, I get an Oracle Error: [Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expecte NUMBER got BINARY. This happens both when I clear the field in a form, or directly in the table (within OO).

Anyone an idea how to solve this? I can create a button to clear the date using an SQL statement, but users could still clear the field manually which would produce this error.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards,

Martijn

How you clear the date field with a SQL statement? When you are setting the field to NULL value, you might check the field settings on the form and the field definition in BASE (open the table for edit) and check for NULL handling.

eremmel wrote:How you clear the date field with a SQL statement? When you are setting the field to NULL value, you might check the field settings on the form and the field definition in BASE (open the table for edit) and check for NULL handling.

When I clear it using SQL the error doesn't occur. The problem exists when it's cleared by selecting the contents and deleting them, or using the None option in the Date dropdown. It seems when I do this, the value doesn't become NULL but something binary.

By the way: there's no option regarding NULL handling when editing the table in Base (all options are greyed-our anyway, probably because it's an external database).

I'm currently trying to write a macro which intercepts the date field when it's been cleared, enters a temporary date saves the record and then clears the date using SQL. If I can get this to work, it might be a solution. But the fact that it's needed is annoying.