[Gambas-user] [Gambas Bug Tracker] Bug #1101: ODBC driver super buggy 2: rs.max return always negative and always -2 event in lasted

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http://gambaswiki.org/bugtracker/edit?object=BUG.1101&from=L21haW4-

Comment #3 by zxMarce:

(sorry for the delay in replying)

Hehe... you're right. But I also quoted IBM's ODBC docs for its DB2, and you can also check Easysoft's excellent C tutorials at http://www.easysoft.com/developer/languages/c/odbc_tutorial.html. Speaking about Easysoft, I myself made a command line ODBC tool to connect with ConnectionStrings and run queries in C with Easysoft's tutorials... And I absolutely suck at C. That good are those tutorials! 

Also, in case you didn't know, Microsoft was one of the leading forces behind drafting ODBC, as this quote from Wikipedia says: 

"ODBC was originally developed by Microsoft and Progress DataDirect during the early 1990s, and became the basis for the Call Level Interface (CLI) standardized by SQL Access Group in the Unix and mainframe field."

So by using their docs you know that that is the standard. Well, at least theirs... They suck at Windows (and OS making and privacy respecting in general), yes, but they sometimes pull nice tricks off their hats like ODBC. And that is not the only standard they helped draft. 

But anyway both MS and IBM (at least when I read the docs to make the Gambas component work again) were kind enough to mark clearly any deviations or differences from the standard in their ODBC docs. 

Hope that helps, 
zxMarce.