FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

I wrote the original bcp stuff under contract, so I did little more than
what was necessary to fulfill that.  I'd be happy to try and remember all
the gory details though.  If you have specific questions, just post them
on the list and I'll try to answer.

Brian

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Lowden, James K wrote:

> Hello,  
> 
> A perusal of bcp.c told me I should have looked more closely at the code
> before asking for advice on how to use bcp_sendrow et. al.  The code is
> obviously stubbed out.  
> 
> I've taken a crack at filling in the stubs.  There are a couple of errors in
> the functional prototypes, and bcp_batch in particular needs tds support.
> Most of the functionality can be borrowed from the existing static
> functions.  
> 
> I've got it working up to the very end, when my version of bcp_done (taken
> directly from the tail of _bcp_exec_in) chokes on an error token (170)
> instead of TDS_DONE_TOKEN.  Almost certainly, the problem lies in the
> sequence of calls to the tds layer or in the bindings (always the most
> tedious part of db-lib programming).  
> 
> Does anyone there want to see this functionality added to the dblib code?
> Would someone be willing to discuss some of the details off-line?  I'm
> hoping to implement the db-lib functions by talking to someone who knows the
> tds api.  Or who can point me to documents not posted on the web site.  
> 
> My lawyer says he's never free but he's always reasonable.  Me, just this
> once, I'm offering both.  Any takers?  It *could* be fun.
> 
> --jkl
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