FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Marc Schouten [mailto:m.schouten AT itsec.nl]
> Sent: June 25, 2002 9:40 AM
> 
> i'm looking in the freeTDS code now, for the point where the 
> data coming in from the
> database  isn't put into a resultset yet, but still as bytestream.
> that way i could create my own function to return the 
> bytestream to my own program so
> i can send it to my client app, and put it into a resultset there.
> or is there any reason i should'nt do anything like this?

Marc, 

That's what db-lib and ct-lib do, actually: fetch a row at a time,
optionally binding the fields to the program's variables.  Your function
will just gobble up a bunch of rows, and bundle them into an object for your
application's convenience.  

Which API are you dealing with?  

--jkl