OTL 4.0, Example 573 (OTL/ODBC, accessing the system data dictionary via ODBC functions, Sybase SQL Server)

This example demonstrates how to access the database system data dictionary via ODBC functions, OTL/ODBC, Sybase SQL Server. In theory, any ODBC driver that implements the necessary ODBC functions can be used with OTL/ODBC.

Source Code

#include <iostream>
#include <stdio.h>
using namespace std;

#define OTL_ODBC_UNIX // Compile OTL 4.0/ODBC
#include <otlv4.h> // include the OTL 4.0 header file

otl_connect db; // connect object


void select()

 otl_stream s;

 s.set_all_column_types(otl_all_num2str|otl_all_date2str); 
    // map all numeric and date/time output columns to strings for simplicity.

db.auto_commit_on(); // setting database connect auto-commit to ON

 s.open(100, // buffer size
         "$SQLColumns $1:'sybsql' $2:'scott' $3:'test_tab'",
         // get a list of all columns of table
// "test_tab" that belongs to schema "dbo",
// catalog "sybsql"
         db // connect object
        ); 

 otl_column_desc* desc;
 int desc_len;
 desc=s.describe_select(desc_len); 
    // describe the structure of the output columns of the result set.

 int rpc=0;
 while(!s.eof()){
   ++rpc;
   char str[512];
   cout<<"ROW#"<<rpc<<" ";
   for(int col_num=0;col_num<desc_len;++col_num){
     s>>str;
     if(s.is_null())
       cout<<desc[col_num].name<<"=NULL ";
     else
       cout<<desc[col_num].name<<"="<<str<<" ";
   }
   cout<<endl;
 }

}

int main()
{
 otl_connect::otl_initialize(); // initialize ODBC environment
 try{

  db.rlogon("scott/tigger@freetds_sybsql"); // connect to ODBC
// It's recommended to use auto_commit_off() when OTL is used
// with FreeTDS/ODBC against Sybase in order to set the DB
// session's auto-commit to OFF. otl_connect::rlogon()'s auto-commit
// parameter has not effect. auto_commit_off() is a workaround, until
// a fix becomes available.
db.auto_commit_off();

  select(); // query the system data dictionary via ODBC functions.

 }

 catch(otl_exception& p){ // intercept OTL exceptions
  cerr<<p.msg<<endl; // print out error message
  cerr<<p.stm_text<<endl; // print out SQL that caused the error
  cerr<<p.sqlstate<<endl; // print out SQLSTATE message
  cerr<<p.var_info<<endl; // print out the variable that caused the error
 }

 db.logoff(); // disconnect from ODBC

 return 0;

}

Output

ROW#1 TABLE_CAT=sybsql TABLE_SCHEM=scott TABLE_NAME=test_tab COLUMN_NAME=f1 DATA_TYPE=4 TYPE_NAME=int COLUMN_SIZE=10 BUFFER_LENGTH=4 DECIMAL_DIGITS=0 NUM_PREC_RADIX=10 NULLABLE=1 REMARKS=NULL COLUMN_DEF=NULL SQL_DATA_TYPE=4 SQL_DATETIME_SUB=NULL CHAR_OCTET_LENGTH=0 ORDINAL_POSITION=1 IS_NULLABLE=YES 
ROW#2 TABLE_CAT=sybsql TABLE_SCHEM=scott TABLE_NAME=test_tab COLUMN_NAME=f2 DATA_TYPE=-1 TYPE_NAME=text COLUMN_SIZE=2147483647 BUFFER_LENGTH=16 DECIMAL_DIGITS=NULL NUM_PREC_RADIX=NULL NULLABLE=1 REMARKS=NULL COLUMN_DEF=NULL SQL_DATA_TYPE=-1 SQL_DATETIME_SUB=NULL CHAR_OCTET_LENGTH=2147483647 ORDINAL_POSITION=2 IS_NULLABLE=YES


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