OdbcOpen Function

Action

Associates a cursor with a database connection. A cursor serves to maintain state information about processing a SQL statement. In a test script, multiple cursors can be used at the same time. Usually, immediately after opening a cursor, the OdbcPrepare function is called to prepare a SQL statement and associate the statement with a cursor.

Include file

ODBC.bdh

Syntax

OdbcOpen( out cCursor     : cursor,
          in  hConnection : number ): boolean;

Return value

true if successful
false otherwise

Parameter	Description
cCursor	Variable receiving the cursor associated with the database connection
hConnection	Handle to a database connection.

Example

var
  hEnv, hDbc : number;
  cCursor : cursor;

dcltrans
  transaction TMain
  begin
    OdbcAlloc(SQL_HANDLE_ENV, hEnv);
    OdbcAlloc(SQL_HANDLE_DBC, hDbc, hEnv);
    OdbcConnect(hDbc, "DSN=database;UID=user;PWD=pass;");
    OdbcOpen(cCursor, hDbc);
    OdbcPrepare(cCursor, sqlInsert);
    OdbcBind(cCursor, ":1", SQL_C_CHAR, 32);
    OdbcBind(cCursor, ":2", SQL_C_LONG);
    OdbcSetString(cCursor, ":1", "Bob", 1);
    OdbcSetInt(cCursor, ":2", 25, 1);
    OdbcSetString(cCursor, ":1", "Marcy", 2);
    OdbcSetInt(cCursor, ":2", 33, 2);
    OdbcExecute(cCursor);
    OdbcClose(cCursor, SQL_DROP);
    OdbcCommit(hDbc);
    OdbcDisconnect(hDbc);
    OdbcFree(hDbc);
    OdbcFree(hEnv);
  end TMain;

dclsql
  sqlInsert:
    INSERT INTO persons (name, age) VALUES (?, ?);