Posted
almost 13 years
ago
by
martinjevans
This all started with a stackoverflow question at Automatic character encoding handling in Perl / DBI / DBD::ODBC. It then led to DBD::ODBC doesn't handle windows-1252 characters and lastly a small discussion on dbi-dev at Decoding data from the database in DBD.
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Posted
about 13 years
ago
by
martinjevans
Changes in DBD::ODBC 1.29 March 8, 2011
An official release of the 1.28 development releases.
[NOTE]
The 1.28 development releases made a change which causes a generic error to be reported when an ODBC call fails but an error message is not
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Posted
about 13 years
ago
by
martinjevans
I'm about to release DBD::ODBC 1.29 after 4 development releases. Unfortunately, (as is often the case) I've found a bug just after the last development release related to batching of SQL statements and odbc_more_results. I'm fairly confident in it
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Posted
about 13 years
ago
by
martinjevans
I came across someone asking about DBIx::ProcedureCall today on Perl Monks in Execute Oracle Stored procedure using DBIx::ProcedureCall. Years ago I remember finding DBIx::ProcedureCall when we were about to embark on writing an application that used
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Posted
about 13 years
ago
by
martinjevans
I've just released DBD::ODBC 1.27.
Version 1.27 combines all the 1.26 development releases and is a significant release as DBD::ODBC is now entirely ODBC 3.0 and requires an ODBC Driver Manager for any ODBC 2.0 drivers. Many thanks to everyone who
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Posted
over 13 years
ago
by
martinjevans
I've recently uploaded a new experimental (and development) release of DBD::ODBC 1.26_1 to CPAN. This contains over 200 block code changes so it is a VERY significant change and should not be used on production servers until you have tested it.
This
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Posted
over 13 years
ago
by
martinjevans
Firstly, I should say I don't use Windows that much these days. The Windows machines where I test DBI and DBD::ODBC I set up ages ago with a Perl built with MS Developer Studio and I tend to keep them for that purpose. However, I bought a whole load
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Posted
over 13 years
ago
by
martinjevans
I'm pleased to announce the 1.25 release of DBD::ODBC.
A full list of changes since the last major release is listed below and at DBD::ODBC Changes. New features include support for MS SQL Server's XML type, a new odbc_lob_read method, overriding of
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Posted
over 13 years
ago
by
martinjevans
Today someone posted a problem using the SQL Server XML datatype with DBI/DBD::ODBC on the dbi-users mailing list. I sorted their problem pretty quickly but noticed his code using length() on scalars which were bound with bound_col was not reporting the correct length. The example and output are below:
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Posted
over 13 years
ago
by
martinjevans
In the last few days I've released what hopefully will be the last development release of DBD::ODBC (1.24_4). If you run Windows especially and Perl 5.13 even more, then please test.
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