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[Eric Deutsch <edeutsch AT systemsbiology.org>]

This post reminds me of a recent software item I ran across, ADO for PHP:

http://php.weblogs.com/ADODB

It looks very nice on paper: universal DB interface for PHP is really
needed.

I haven't gotten around to downloading and trying this yet.  Has anyone
any experience with this, especially with Apache + PHP on Linux connecting
to MSSQL?  It appears from the web site that this should be possible,
although it's not clear.

If anyone has comments to share about this software, I'd be most
interested.

thanks,
Eric


On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Rui Ribeiro wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I know this I'm about to say won't help much, but it seems to me that the 
> mechanism being searched
> by the original posteris something provided by Active Data Objects (ADO). 
> In ADO you can specificy
> the dimension of a page of records and then you can ask for a specific page 
> within the recordset
> returned by the original query. I am not aware of the cost of this 
> mechanism on the server, because
> its obvious that at some point the required work (finding the total number 
> of records, finding and
> retrieving the records for the selected page) will have to be done. But it 
> sure eases the life of
> the programmer.
> Unfortunately in Unix or Linux the only way you could use this would be 
> through an ASP plataform
> such as Chili!ASP or something similar.
>
> It sure would be nice to have this in freetds, but it would be quite a move 
> from the current
> philosophy.
>
> Regards
>
> Rui Ribeiro
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bounce-freetds-130046 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
> > [mailto:bounce-freetds-130046 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu]On Behalf Of Brian
> > Bruns
> > Sent: sexta-feira, 9 de Novembro de 2001 17:43
> > To: TDS Development Group
> > Subject: [freetds] Re: Implementation of select Limit
> >
> >
> > Well typically the you start at the top at some point, so you can say
> >
> > select top 100 * from table where keycol > 'last value of key column from
> > previous page'
> >
> > of course that blows up if you sort it on a non unique column.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > > --IiVenqGWf+H9Y6IX
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> > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 07:32:06AM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote:
> > > >=20
> > > > Doesn't SQL Server have a limit-type statement? Sybase doesn't but 
> > > > I'm=20
> > > > pretty sure MS added one....back, back, back into the recesses of my 
> > > > mind=
> > > ,=20
> > > > I think its like:
> > >
> > > > select top 100 * from table
> > >
> > > You can select records from the top, yes -- I've always been annoyed at
> > > this deficiency of MS SQL, because usually when I want to limit the
> > > results returned, it's because I'm running the query from a web script
> > > that returns x number of results /at a time/... which means after you
> > > get the /first/ 100 records, logically you might want to look at the
> > > /second/ set of 100 records, and MS SQL doesn't provide a sensible
> > > interface to this that I've seen.
> > >
> > > Steve Langasek
> > > postmodern programmer
> > >
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