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- NAME: dbtabcount
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- FUNCTION:
- Return the number of tables involved in the current SELECT query.
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- SYNTAX:
- int dbtabcount(dbproc)
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- DBPROCESS *dbproc;
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- COMMENTS:
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- o dbtabcount() is one of the DB-Library browse mode routines. It
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- is usable only with results from a browse-mode SELECT (i.e., a
- SELECT containing the key words FOR BROWSE). See the Introduc-
- tion for a detailed discussion of browse mode.
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- o A SELECT query can generate a set of result rows whose columns
- are derived from several database tables. To perform browse-
- mode updates of columns in a query's select-list, the applica-
- tion must know how many tables were involved in the query,
- because each table requires a separate UPDATE statement.
- dbtabcount() can provide this information for ad hoc queries.
- If the query has been hardcoded into the program, this routine
- is obviously unnecessary.
- o The count returned by this routine includes any SQL Server
- "work tables" used in processing the query. The SQL Server
- sometimes creates temporary, internal work tables to process a
- query. It deletes these work tables by the time it finishes
- processing the statement. Work tables are not updatable and
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- are not available to the application. Therefore, before using
- a table number, the application must make sure that it does not
- belong to a work table. dbtabname() can be used to determine
- whether a particular table number refers to a work table.
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- o The application can call dbtabcount() any time after
- dbresults().
- o Example 7 in the DB-Library Reference Supplement contains a
- call to dbtabcount().
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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.
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- RETURNS:
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- The number of tables, including SQL Server work tables, involved
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- dbtabcount() will return -1 in case of error.
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- SEE ALSO:
- dbcolbrowse, dbcolsource, dbqual, dbtabbrowse, dbtabname, dbtab-
- source, dbtsnewlen, dbtsnewval, dbtsput
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