This manual, the Open Server Server-Library/C Reference Manual, contains reference information for the C version of Open Server™ Server-Library.
The Open Server Server-Library/C Reference Manual is designed as a reference manual for programmers who are writing Open Server applications. It is written for application programmers who are familiar with the C programming language.
When writing an Open Server application, use the Open Server Server-Library/C Reference Manual as a source of reference information.
Chapter 1, “Introducing Open Server” contains a brief introduction to Open Server.
Chapter 2, “Topics” contains information on how to accomplish specific programming tasks, such as using Server-Library routines to read a text or image value from the server. This chapter also contains information on Open Server structures, programming techniques, and error handling.
Chapter 3, “Routines” contains specific information about each Server-Library routine, such as what parameters the routine accepts and what values it returns.
Chapter 4, “System Registered Procedures” contains information on the registered procedures that Server-Library automatically provides. It includes a description of parameters, results, and messages.
Glossary words appear in bold the first time they are used in the text of this manual.
The Open Client and Open Server Installation Guide for your platform explains how to install Open Server.
The Open Client and Open Server Common Libraries Reference Manual contains reference information for:
CS-Library
Bulk-Library
The Open Client and Open Server Programmer’s Supplement for your platform contains platform-specific programming information, including information about:
Compiling and linking an application
The example programs that are included online with Open Client/Server products
Routines that have platform-specific behaviors
The Open Client and Open Server Configuration Guide for your platform contains platform-specific configuration information, including information about:
The interfaces file
Localization
The Sybase document set includes a wide range of user guides and reference manuals that describe all aspects of the Sybase relational database management system. Because application development can draw on a number of different parts of the Sybase system, you may encounter most of the Sybase document set at some time or another. A few manuals that will prove to be particularly useful:
The Open Client Client-Library/C Reference Manual contains reference information for Client-Library™, a collection of routines for use in writing client applications.
The Open Client DB-Library/C Reference Manual describes DB-Library™. Like Client-Library, DB-Library is a collection of routines for use in writing client applications.
The Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Reference Manual describes Transact-SQL®, the database language an application uses to create and manipulate Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise™ database objects.
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Server-Library routine syntax is shown like this:
CS-RETCODE srv-getmsgq(msgqid, msgp, getflags, infop) SRV-OBJID msgqid; CS-VOID *msgp; CS-INT getflags; CS-INT *infop;
Program text and computer output are shown like this:
srv_getmsgq(myqid, msgbuf, SRV_M_NOWAIT, &info);
Open Server version 12.5 includes a number of sample Open Server application programs. They are located in $SYBASE/sample/srvlibrary. The Open Client and Open Server Programmer’s Supplement for your platform summarizes each sample program and describes the requirements for running each.
If you have access to a SQL Server version 10.0 or later, you can use sp-syntax, a Sybase system procedure, to retrieve the syntax of Server-Library routines. For information on how to install sp-syntax, see the System Administration Guide Supplement for your platform. For information on how to run sp-syntax, see its reference page in the Adaptive Server Enterprise Reference Manual.
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