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  • From: Sharan Rao <sharanrao AT gmail.com>
  • To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Choosing right FreeTDS API
  • Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:51:43 +0530

On Thursday 22 Nov 2007 12:39:38 am James K. Lowden wrote:
> Hi Sharan,
>
> Use db-lib. Definitely. It's supported, documented by both us and the
> vendors, and stable. Also you'll find many examples in the distribution.
>
>
> The FreeTDS db-lib implementation doesn't support client-side cursors or
> "browse mode" and probably never will. The normal way db-lib is used
> doesn't require them.
>
> A TDS server sends rows to the client as they're produced. The client
> APIs all have a forward-only read-next-row function; in db-lib it's called
> dbnextrow(). That's the workhorse for retrieving data.
>

Thank You. That sure helped in making the decision :)

Cheers!
Sharan Rao




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