FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Alex [mailto:alexp AT vcidac.lv]
> Sent: August 9, 2002 1:48 PM
> 
> Configuration: Freetds 0.60 (tried 4.2,7.0 protocols), MSSQL 
> 7.0 server.
> The following query give away "Unknown marker: 165!!" message:
> 
> DECLARE test_cursor CURSOR GLOBAL STATIC FOR SELECT * FROM testtable
> OPEN test_cursor
> FETCH NEXT FROM test_cursor

Confirmed in sqsh with 8 August snapshot, see below.  What should the
documentation say about server-side cursors?  Do they work at all on MS
servers?  I have only seen them work on Sybase.  

--jkl

[13] NTS0090.master.1> DECLARE test_cursor CURSOR GLOBAL STATIC FOR SELECT
1, 'asdf'
[13] NTS0090.master.2> OPEN test_cursor

[13] NTS0090.master.3> FETCH NEXT FROM test_cursor

[13] NTS0090.master.4> go
Unknown marker: 165!!
Unknown marker: 9!!
Unknown marker: 0!!
Unknown marker: 1!!
Unknown marker: 0!!
Unknown marker: 4!!
Unknown marker: 2!!
Unknown marker: 0!!
Unknown marker: 4!!
Unknown marker: 3!!
Unknown marker: 0!!
Unknown marker: 20!!
Unknown marker: 4!!
Unknown marker: 0!!
Unknown marker: 97!!
Unknown marker: 115!!
Unknown marker: 100!!
Unknown marker: 102!!
Unknown marker: 1!!
Unknown marker: 0!!
Unknown marker: 0!!
Unknown marker: 0!!
                  rowstat
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[14] NTS0090.master.1>


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