FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Joseph Geiser
> Sent: July 1, 2004 4:46 PM
> 
> > We now have a db-lib test facility: bsqldb, first included in 
> > 0.62.3.  (If you want a man page, though, get a nightly 
> > snapshot.)  The attached script works with bsqldb; I'd be 
> > curious to know if isql can process it, too.  But: all it's 
> > doing is T-SQL.  If you use the -v option, bsqldb will show 
> > you that no parameters are returned as such to the client.  
> 
> Just an FYI... here are the results of this test (some data 
> modified for obvious reasons)
> 
> [joe@server www]# bsqldb -S server -U sa -P pass -D dbname -i 
> odbctest-bsql
> -o odbctest-bsql-out -v
> bsqldb:157: Verbose operation enabled
> bsqldb:207: Query:
>         declare @cid cursor,@rcid int,@rpid int,@rtid varchar(20)
>         exec mt_testhash @hashin='1h88f9',@hashdata=@cid output
>         fetch next from @cid into @rcid,@rpid,@rtid
>         while @@fetch_status=0
>         begin
>           print cast(@rcid as varchar(10)) + ' - ' + cast(@rpid as
> varchar(10)) + ' - ' + @rtid
>           fetch next from @cid into @rcid,@rpid,@rtid
>         end
>         close @cid
>         deallocate @cid
> 
> bsqldb:180: dbsqlsend() OK:
> bsqldb:188: dbsqlok() OK:
> bsqldb:261: calling dbresults OK:
> Result set 1
> Freeing prior allocations
> Allocating buffers
> Allocating compute buffers
> Metadata
> col     name                            source                
>           type
> size    varys
> ------  ------------------------------  ------------------------------
> ---------------  ------  ------
> 
> Data
> Retrieving return status... Procedure returned 0
> 1 rows affected
> Retrieving output parameters... none
> bsqldb:583: dbresults() returned NO_MORE_RESULTS (2):
> 
> Is this what should be expected?  

Yes.  The output of the PRINT statement should have landed in 
odbctest-bsql-out.  The -v output is written to stderr.  Because the code 
runs in bsqldb, I'd expect it to work with PHP using the mssql extension.  

This line:

> Retrieving output parameters... none

indicates that the server did not return any output parameter values to the 
client (cf. dbnumrets).    

However, your example doesn't show any output parameters that you could bind. 
 @cid is of type cursor, and it's the output parameter for mt_testhash.  You 
won't be able to return a cursor variable to your PHP program.  Not that I 
can see any real reason to....

I hope that answers your question.

--jkl

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