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- NAME: dbopen
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- FUNCTION:
- Create and initialize a DBPROCESS structure.
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- SYNTAX:
- DBPROCESS *dbopen(login, server)
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- LOGINREC *login;
- char *server;
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- o This routine allocates and initializes a DBPROCESS structure.
- This structure is the basic data structure that DB-Library uses
- to communicate with SQL Server. It is the first argument in
- almost every DB-Library call. Besides allocating the DBPROCESS
- structure, this routine sets up communication with the network,
- logs into SQL Server, and initializes any default options.
- o Here's a program fragment that uses dbopen():
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- DBPROCESS *dbproc;
- LOGINREC *loginrec;
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- loginrec = dblogin();
- DBSETLPWD(loginrec, "server_password");
- DBSETLAPP(loginrec, "my_program");
- dbproc = dbopen(loginrec, "my_server");
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- o Once the application has logged into a SQL Server, it can
- change databases by calling the dbuse() routine.
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- PARAMETERS:
- login - A pointer to a LOGINREC structure. This pointer will be
- passed as an argument to dbopen(). You can get one by cal-
- ling dblogin().
- Once the application has made all its dbopen() calls, the
- LOGINREC structure is no longer necessary. The program can
- then call dbloginfree() to free the LOGINREC structure.
- server - The SQL Server that you want to connect to. server is
- the alias given to the server in the interfaces file. dbo-
- pen() looks up server in the interfaces file to get informa-
- tion for connecting to a SQL Server.
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- If server is NULL (and you have not called dbsetconnect() as
- described below), dbopen() looks up the interfaces entry that
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- corresponds to the value of the DSQUERY environment variable
- or logical name. If DSQUERY has not been explicitly set, it
- has a value of "SYBASE". (For information on designating an
- interfaces file, see the manual page for dbsetifile(). For
- more information on the interfaces file itself, see the
- SYBASE Installation Guide.)
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- You specify a value for this parameter only if you want the
- interfaces file to determine the SQL Server connection. If
- the dbsetconnect() routine has previously been called to
- determine the SQL Server connection, this parameter is
- ignored and should be NULL.
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- RETURNS:
- A DBPROCESS pointer if everything went well. Ordinarily, dbo-
- pen() returns NULL if a DBPROCESS structure couldn't be created
- or initialized, or if your login to SQL Server failed. When dbo-
- pen() returns NULL, it generates a DB-Library error number that
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- indicates the error. The application can access this error
- number through an error handler. However, if there's an unex-
- pected communications failure during the SQL Server login process
- and an error handler has not been installed, the program will be
- aborted.
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- ERRORS:
- dbopen() will return NULL if any of the following are true:
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- SYBEMEM Unable to allocate sufficient memory.
- SYBEDBPS Maximum number of DBPROCESSes already allocated.
- SYBESOCK Unable to open socket.
- SYBEINTF Server name not found in interfaces file.
- SYBEUHST Unknown host machine name.
- SYBECONN Unable to connect: SQL Server is unavailable or does not exist.
- SYBEPWD Login incorrect.
- SYBEOPIN Could not open interfaces file.
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- SEE ALSO:
- dbclose, dbexit, dbinit, dblogin, dbloginfree, dbsetconnect,
- dbsetifile, dbuse
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