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  • From: "ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>
  • To: "FreeTDS Development Group" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [freetds] dbbind, dbnullbind issues
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:57:56 +0200

>
> Guys,
>
> I've been wrestling with the features of dbbind and
> dbnullbind, and trying
> to implement something that reflects :
>
> a) what the manual pages say (both Sybase and SQL Server)
> b) how the functions work in reality (for which I use a test program
> compiled with Sybase open client)
>
> I'm finding a few things in this area that are giving me problems:
>
> 1) The manual pages do NOT reflect how the functions actually behave.
> 2) The actual behaviours don't make much sense sometimes.
>
> I could do several things:
>
> 1) code our dblibrary funstions so that they behave as
> specified in the
> manual pages.
> 2) attempt to reflect the actual (but inconsistent) behaviour
> of the Sybase
> implementation
> 3) code to a different, but clearer and arguably more sensible,
> specification.
>
> 1) has the advantage of clarity, but may lead to problems
> with applications
> originally coded against Sybase open client, e.g. DBD::Sybase
> 2) is proving a bit difficult, as I'm having problems working out the
> underlying logic from the results I'm getting.
> 3) would lead us down the road of providing our own man pages for the
> dblibrary functions.
>
> What do you reckon I should do ?
>
> regards,
>

Hi Bill,
I don't know dblib that much however you should tell us what you
discovered about these functions... why are they so weird??

freddy77




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