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Hi, ALL,
I am trying to develop a program that will
use an ODBC connection to different DB.
It will be based on some other C++ library.

What I found is that the comment to the ODBC interface
for this library says following:

// By default, MS Sql Server closes cursors on commit and rollback.  The 
following
// call to SQLSetConnectOption() is needed to force SQL Server to preserve 
cursors
// after a transaction.  This is a driver specific option and is not part of 
the
// ODBC standard.  Note: this behavior is specific to the ODBC interface to 
SQL Server.
// The database settings don't have any effect one way or the other.
const long SQL_PRESERVE_CURSORS = 1204L;
const long SQL_PC_ON = 1L;
/* retcode = */ SQLSetConnectOption(hdbc, SQL_PRESERVE_CURSORS, SQL_PC_ON);

Is this true for all version of MS SQL Server or just for an old ones?
Is it the same for Sybase as well?

What I will gain/lose when this will be disabled?

Thank you.