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List:       dbi-dev
Subject:    Re: Array Binding (an ODBC example)
From:       Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce () pobox ! com>
Date:       2001-08-10 12:10:45
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On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 09:47:01AM +0100, martin@easysoft.com wrote:
> 
> DBD::ODBC changed some time back to distribute with a driver manager (iODBC,
> although the version is old now and I personally use the unixODBC driver manager
> instead - http://www.unixodbc.org).

Back then the DM was hard to find. Now it should be removed and replaced with
references on where to get DMs from.

> If an ODBC driver does not support array bound parameters I guess DBD::ODBC
> should do the multiple calls to SQLExecute/SQLFetch moving through the arrays -
> in that way people writing perl using DBD::ODBC do not have to worry about a
> driver supporting arrays or not.

Yes, although the DBI will also offer that, doing it within DBD::ODBC would be
much faster.

Tim.

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