[freetds] OK to call SQLGetData more than once?

James K. Lowden jklowden at freetds.org
Wed Feb 6 10:22:30 EST 2008


ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
> > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms715441(VS.85).aspx
> > 
> > 	"... within a row of data, the value of the 
> > ColumnNumber argument in each
> > call to SQLGetData must be greater than or equal to the value of
> > ColumnNumber in the previous call".  
> 
> Successive calls to SQLGetData
> returns other parts of the data. For fixed type you have to read all
> data, for variable you can read splitting chunks. 

Oh.  You must be thinking of this:

	"If SQLGetData is called more than one time in a row for a column
containing fixed-length data, it returns SQL_NO_DATA for all calls after
the first."

as though reading from a file!  

This ODBC stuff is tough.  Thanks for the correction. :-)

--jkl



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