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- NAME: dbsetnull
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- FUNCTION:
- Define substitution values to be used when binding null values.
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- SYNTAX:
- RETCODE dbsetnull(dbproc, bindtype, bindlen, bindval)
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- DBPROCESS *dbproc;
- int bindtype;
- int bindlen;
- BYTE *bindval;
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- COMMENTS:
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- o The dbbind() and dbaltbind() routines bind result column values
- to program variables. After the application calls them, calls
- to dbnextrow() and dbgetrow() automatically copy result values
- into the variables to which they are bound. If SQL Server
- returns a null value for one of the result columns, DB-Library
- automatically places a substitute value into the result vari-
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- o Each DBPROCESS has a list of substitute values for each of the
- binding types. The default substitution values are:
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- Binding Type Null Substitution Value
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- TINYBIND 0
- SMALLBIND 0
- INTBIND 0
- CHARBIND empty string (padded with blanks)
- STRINGBIND empty string (padded with blanks, null-terminated)
- NTBSTRINGBIND empty string (null-terminated)
- VARYCHARBIND empty string
- BINARYBIND empty array (padded with zeros)
- VARYBINBIND empty array
- DATETIMEBIND 8 bytes of zeros
- MONEYBIND $0.00
- FLT8BIND 0.0
- o dbsetnull() lets you provide your own null substitution values.
- When you call dbsetnull() to change a particular null substitu-
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- specified DBPROCESS until you change it with another call to
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- o The dbconvert() routine also uses the current null substitution
- values when it needs to set a destination variable to null.
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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
- contains all the information that DB-Library uses to manage
- communications and data between the front end and SQL Server.
- bindtype - The type of variable binding to which the substitute
- value will apply. (See the manual page for dbbind() for more
- information about the different bindtypes.)
- bindlen - The length in bytes of the substitute value you are
- supplying. DB-Library ignores it in all cases except CHAR-
- BIND and BINARYBIND. All the other types are either fixed
- length or have a special terminator or embedded byte-count
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- that provides the length of the data.
- bindval - A generic BYTE pointer to the value you want to use as
- a null substitution value. dbsetnull() makes a copy of the
- value, so you can free this pointer at any time after this
- call.
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- RETURNS:
- SUCCEED or FAIL. dbsetnull() returns FAIL if you give it an unk-
- nown bindtype. It will also fail if the specified DBPROCESS is
- dead.
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- SEE ALSO:
- dbaltbind, dbbind, dbconvert, types
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