The Microsoft Oracle OLE DB Provider interprets OLE DB initialization and authorization properties as follows. Only the properties supported are listed. For those not supported, an error is returned. For the full description, see Appendix C, "Properties," in the OLE DB Programmer's Reference.
| Property ID | Short Description |
| DBPROP_AUTH_PASSWORD | The password assigned to an Oracle user. |
| DBPROP_AUTH_USERID | An Oracle user name. |
| DBPROP_INIT_DATASOURCE | An existing Oracle server. |
| DBPROP_INIT_HWND | A window handle from the calling application. A valid window handle is required for the initialization dialog box displayed when prompting for initialization properties is allowed. |
| DBPROP_INIT_LCID | This provider validates the locale ID and returns an error if the locale ID is not supported or is not installed on the client machine. |
| DBPROP_INIT_PROMPT | This provider supports all prompting modes for data source initialization. This provider uses DBPROMPT_NOPROMPT as its default setting for the property. |