Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

freetds - Re: [freetds] intermittent empty results

freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: FreeTDS Development Group

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] intermittent empty results
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:52:54 +0200

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 02:12, James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:53:53 EDT, Thompbil18 AT aol.com wrote:
> > we have no way of knowing of course whether this is a valid return
> > status that you might want to retrieve or not, so we do what we do with
> > all return status messages - we "manufacture" a result set for the
> > return status, and inform ct-library that there is a return status to
> > fetch.
>
> David,
>
> "perldoc DBD::Sybase" says:
>
> You can get the type of the current result set with
> $sth->{syb_result_type}. This returns a numerical value,
> as defined in $SYBASE/include/cspublic.h:
>
> #define CS_ROW_RESULT (CS_INT)4040
> #define CS_CURSOR_RESULT (CS_INT)4041
> #define CS_PARAM_RESULT (CS_INT)4042
> #define CS_STATUS_RESULT (CS_INT)4043
> #define CS_MSG_RESULT (CS_INT)4044
> #define CS_COMPUTE_RESULT (CS_INT)4045
>
> In particular, the return status of a stored procedure is
> returned as CS_STATUS_RESULT (4043), and is normally the
> last result set that is returned in a stored proc execu-
> tion.
>
> The script in your original posting doesn't use syb_result_type. It might
> be just what the doctor ordered. Dr. Bill, that is.

You can also add

use DBD::Sybase;

to your script and use the symbolic values (CS_STATUS_RESULT).

And of course, run the script with DBI->trace(3) or higher to see which
API calls DBD::Sybase calls, and what results it receives.

Michael
--
Michael Peppler Data Migrations, Inc.
mpeppler AT peppler.org http://www.peppler.org/
Sybase T-SQL/OpenClient/OpenServer/C/Perl developer available for short
or long term contract positions - http://www.peppler.org/resume.html






Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page