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- NAME: dbdata
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- FUNCTION:
- Return a pointer to the data in a regular result column.
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- SYNTAX:
- BYTE *dbdata(dbproc, column)
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- DBPROCESS *dbproc;
- int column;
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- o This routine returns a pointer to the data in a regular (i.e.,
- non-compute) result column. The data is not null-terminated.
- You can use dbdatlen() to get the length of the data.
- o Here's a small program fragment that uses dbdata():
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- DBPROCESS *dbproc;
- DBINT row_number = 0;
- DBINT object_id;
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- /* put the command into the command buffer */
- dbcmd(dbproc, "select id from sysobjects");
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- /* send the command to SQL Server and begin execution */
- dbsqlexec(dbproc);
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- /* process the command results */
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- dbresults(dbproc);
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- /* examine the data in each row */
- while (dbnextrow(dbproc) != NO_MORE_ROWS)
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- row_number++;
- object_id = *((DBINT *)dbdata(dbproc, 1));
- printf("row %ld, object id is %ld.\n", row_number,
- object_id);
- }
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- o Do not add a null terminator to string data until you've copied
- it from the DBPROCESS with a routine such as strncpy(). For
- example:
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- char objname[40]
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- strncpy(objname, (char *)dbdata(dbproc,2), (int)dbdatlen(dbproc,2))
- objname[dbdatlen(dbproc,2] = '\0'
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- o The function dbbind() will automatically bind result data to
- your program variables. It does a copy of the data, but is
- often easier to use than dbdata(). Furthermore, it includes a
- convenient type conversion capability. By means of this capa-
- bility, the application can, among other things, easily add a
- null terminator to a result string or convert money and date-
- time data to printable strings.
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- PARAMETERS:
- dbproc - A pointer to the DBPROCESS structure that provides the
- connection for a particular front-end/SQL Server process. It
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- contains all the information that DB-Library uses to manage
- communications and data between the front end and SQL Server.
- column - The number of the column of interest. The first column
- is number 1.
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- RETURNS:
- A BYTE pointer to the data for the particular column of interest.
- Be sure to cast this pointer into the proper type. A NULL BYTE
- pointer is returned if there is no such column or if the data has
- a null value. To make sure that the data is really a null value,
- you should always check for a return of 0 from dbdatlen().
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- SEE ALSO:
- dbbind, dbcollen, dbcolname, dbcoltype, dbdatlen, dbnumcols
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