FreeTDS Development Group

[Sharan Rao <sharanrao AT gmail.com>]

On Thursday 22 Nov 2007 12:39:38 am James K. Lowden wrote:
> Hi Sharan,
>
> Use db-lib.  Definitely.  It's supported, documented by both us and the
> vendors, and stable.  Also you'll find many examples in the distribution.
>
>
> The FreeTDS db-lib implementation doesn't support client-side cursors or
> "browse mode" and probably never will.  The normal way db-lib is used
> doesn't require them.
>
> A TDS server sends rows to the client as they're produced.  The client
> APIs all have a forward-only read-next-row function; in db-lib it's called
> dbnextrow().  That's the workhorse for retrieving data.
>

Thank You. That sure helped in making the decision :)

Cheers!
 Sharan Rao