I am attempting to create a table in Oracle Spatial that can be then be opened in 
MapInfo, but am struggling to open the table.

I am using SQL*Loader to load point data into my table in Oracle, including a column 
called geoloc to hold the geometry. I've used SDO_GEOM.VALIDATE_GEOMETRY_WITH_CONTEXT 
to check that the geometries were successfully created and included a primary key 
column that contains a unique numeric reference number for each row (called MI_PRINX). 
I am able to successfully perform queries on my data in Oracle.

I am now trying to open this table in MapInfo. I have successfully created a Oracle 
Spatial DBMS connection to Oracle from MapInfo enabling me to select the spatial table 
I am trying to open. I then try and open it with Live Access but get the following 
error message ' Unsupported data type for column(s): GEOLOC ', where GEOLOC is the 
column in the oracle table that contains the geometry.

Does anyone know how to tell MapInfo that this is the geometry and use it to plot the 
points?

Thanks in advance for your help,

John

 John Bark
 Information Systems Analyst
  Marks & Spencer

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