ODBC API

[Arrun S]

Hi
I don't know how to access the ODBC API through C#. The VS.NET provides OLEDB Data Provider but not ODBC
E.g., select * from tbl where id=
To get the data type (description) of the column 'id', the ODBC provides a function 'SQLDescribePar am()'. But, I don't know how to access this function through C#.Could anyone help me
TIA
Arrun

[Miha Markic [MVP C#]]

Hi Arrun,

Have yo checked System.Data.Odb c namespace?
It comes with .net 1.1.

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"Arrun S" <pr*****@yahoo. co.in> wrote in message
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Hi
I don't know how to access the ODBC API through C#. The VS.NET provides OLEDB Data Provider but not ODBC. E.g., select * from tbl where id=?
To get the data type (description) of the column 'id', the ODBC provides a function 'SQLDescribePar am()'. But, I don't know how to access this
function through C#.Could anyone help me? TIA,
Arrun S

[Austin Ehlers]

Have you installed the ODBC .NET Data Provider?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Austin

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 23:36:05 -0800, "Arrun S" <pr*****@yahoo. co.in>
wrote:

Hi
I don't know how to access the ODBC API through C#. The VS.NET provides OLEDB Data Provider but not ODBC.
E.g., select * from tbl where id=?
To get the data type (description) of the column 'id', the ODBC provides a function 'SQLDescribePar am()'. But, I don't know how to access this function through C#.Could anyone help me?
TIA,
Arrun S

[William \(Bill\) Vaughn]

ODBC is built into the 1.1 version of the Framework. It can be downloaded
and used with version 1.0.
However, this is NOT the ODBC API. As I wrote in my books quite some time
ago, the ODBC API requires "Declare" statements the tie the API entry points
to VB functions and subroutines. There is no publicly available set of
headers for use in .NET languages--not that I've heard of.

What are you trying to do? While you can get at the ODBC drivers, the API
interfaces are tough to get to.

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"Arrun S" <pr*****@yahoo. co.in> wrote in message
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Hi
I don't know how to access the ODBC API through C#. The VS.NET provides OLEDB Data Provider but not ODBC. E.g., select * from tbl where id=?
To get the data type (description) of the column 'id', the ODBC provides a function 'SQLDescribePar am()'. But, I don't know how to access this
function through C#.Could anyone help me? TIA,
Arrun S

[Roy Fine]

Arrun,

SQLDescribePara m is a system API call - you would have to use P/Invoke to
get to that one. That's the short answer.

The long answer is that accessing data using the ODBC API is sufficiently
difficult in C#, and the benefits are so few, you are better off looking for
another solution.

For ADO.Net, if you need schema info on a column returned from a server, use
the GetSchemaTable method on the DataReader object.

The GetSchemaTable method works similar to the ODBC API call, in that the
API call works on the prepared statement - there is a round trip to the
server, but the statement does not have to be executed. Using the data
reader approach requires the behavior parameter to be set to SchemaOnly (or
KeyInfo if you want to execute the select query, and get data and schema
info in one trip)

best regards
roy fine
"Arrun S" <pr*****@yahoo. co.in> wrote in message
news:EB******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

Hi
I don't know how to access the ODBC API through C#. The VS.NET provides OLEDB Data Provider but not ODBC. E.g., select * from tbl where id=?
To get the data type (description) of the column 'id', the ODBC provides a function 'SQLDescribePar am()'. But, I don't know how to access this
function through C#.Could anyone help me? TIA,
Arrun S

[Tony]

This only works if you know what table you want to go after.

What if you need a list of tables, indexes, etc.

Also I need to know what server I'm talking to (Oracle or SQL Server)
because the SQL Syntax is different.

Tony

"Roy Fine" <rl****@twt.obf uscate.net> wrote in message
news:et******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...

Arrun,

SQLDescribePara m is a system API call - you would have to use P/Invoke to
get to that one. That's the short answer.

The long answer is that accessing data using the ODBC API is sufficiently
difficult in C#, and the benefits are so few, you are better off looking for another solution.

For ADO.Net, if you need schema info on a column returned from a server, use the GetSchemaTable method on the DataReader object.

The GetSchemaTable method works similar to the ODBC API call, in that the
API call works on the prepared statement - there is a round trip to the
server, but the statement does not have to be executed. Using the data
reader approach requires the behavior parameter to be set to SchemaOnly (or KeyInfo if you want to execute the select query, and get data and schema
info in one trip)

best regards
roy fine
"Arrun S" <pr*****@yahoo. co.in> wrote in message
news:EB******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

Hi
I don't know how to access the ODBC API through C#. The VS.NET

provides OLEDB Data Provider but not ODBC.

E.g., select * from tbl where id=?
To get the data type (description) of the column 'id', the ODBC

provides a function 'SQLDescribePar am()'. But, I don't know how to access this
function through C#.Could anyone help me?

TIA,
Arrun S

[Tony]

This only works if you know what table you want to go after.

What if you need a list of tables, indexes, etc.

Also I need to know what server I'm talking to (Oracle or SQL Server)
because the SQL Syntax is different.

Tony

"Roy Fine" <rl****@twt.obf uscate.net> wrote in message
news:et******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...

Arrun,

SQLDescribePara m is a system API call - you would have to use P/Invoke to
get to that one. That's the short answer.

The long answer is that accessing data using the ODBC API is sufficiently
difficult in C#, and the benefits are so few, you are better off looking for another solution.

For ADO.Net, if you need schema info on a column returned from a server, use the GetSchemaTable method on the DataReader object.

The GetSchemaTable method works similar to the ODBC API call, in that the
API call works on the prepared statement - there is a round trip to the
server, but the statement does not have to be executed. Using the data
reader approach requires the behavior parameter to be set to SchemaOnly (or KeyInfo if you want to execute the select query, and get data and schema
info in one trip)

best regards
roy fine
"Arrun S" <pr*****@yahoo. co.in> wrote in message
news:EB******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

Hi
I don't know how to access the ODBC API through C#. The VS.NET

provides OLEDB Data Provider but not ODBC.

E.g., select * from tbl where id=?
To get the data type (description) of the column 'id', the ODBC

provides a function 'SQLDescribePar am()'. But, I don't know how to access this
function through C#.Could anyone help me?

TIA,
Arrun S

[Tony]

This only works if you know what table you want to go after.

What if you need a list of tables, indexes, etc.

Also I need to know what server I'm talking to (Oracle or SQL Server)
because the SQL Syntax is different.

Tony

"Roy Fine" <rl****@twt.obf uscate.net> wrote in message
news:et******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...

Arrun,

SQLDescribePara m is a system API call - you would have to use P/Invoke to
get to that one. That's the short answer.

The long answer is that accessing data using the ODBC API is sufficiently
difficult in C#, and the benefits are so few, you are better off looking for another solution.

For ADO.Net, if you need schema info on a column returned from a server, use the GetSchemaTable method on the DataReader object.

The GetSchemaTable method works similar to the ODBC API call, in that the
API call works on the prepared statement - there is a round trip to the
server, but the statement does not have to be executed. Using the data
reader approach requires the behavior parameter to be set to SchemaOnly (or KeyInfo if you want to execute the select query, and get data and schema
info in one trip)

best regards
roy fine
"Arrun S" <pr*****@yahoo. co.in> wrote in message
news:EB******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

Hi
I don't know how to access the ODBC API through C#. The VS.NET

provides OLEDB Data Provider but not ODBC.

E.g., select * from tbl where id=?
To get the data type (description) of the column 'id', the ODBC

provides a function 'SQLDescribePar am()'. But, I don't know how to access this
function through C#.Could anyone help me?

TIA,
Arrun S