Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) library offers some nonvisual components for Borland Delphi and C++ Builder. They serve for access to Oracle RDBMS. ODAC is an alternative to standard way processing data by Borland Database Engine (BDE). - Supports Oracle 8 feathers: BLOB, CLOB and BFile data types, objects, arrays, references, nested tables; - Simplifies data updating; - Offers two way of updating data: more flexable with TOraQuery and more easy with TSmartQuery; - Speeds up fetch record from database; - Provides automatic locking and refreshing records; - Allows to execute longtime stored procedure separated thread.