This book contains reference information for the C version of Open Client™ DB-Library™.
This book is intended to serve as a reference manual for programmers who are writing DB-Library applications. It is written for application programmers familiar with the C programming language.
This book contains these chapters:
Chapter 1, “Introducing DB-Library,” contains a brief introduction to DB-Library.
Chapter 2, “Routines,”contains specific information about each DB-Library routine, such as what parameters the routine takes and what it returns.
Chapter 3, “Bulk Copy Routines,” contains an introduction to bulk copy and specific information about each bulk copy routine.
Chapter 4, “Two-Phase Commit Service,” contains a brief description of two-phase commit service and specific information about each two-phase commit service routine.
Appendix A, “Cursors,” introduces DB-Library’s cursor routines.
Appendix B, “DB-Library Error Messages,” contains information about DB-Library error messages.
You can see these books for more information:
The Open Server and SDK New Features for Windows, Linux, and UNIX, which describes new features available for Open Server and the Software Developer’s Kit. This document is revised to include new features as they become available.
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The Software Developer’s Kit Release Bulletin for your platform contains important last-minute information about Open Client™ and SDK.
The jConnect™ for JDBC™ Release Bulletin contains important last-minute information about jConnect.
The Open Client and Open Server Configuration Guide for your platform contains information about configuring your system to run Open Client and Open Server.
The Open Client Client-Library/C Programmers Guide contains information on how to design and implement Client-Library applications.
The Open Client Client-Library/C Reference Manual contains reference information for Open Client Client-Library™.
The Open Server Server-Library/C Reference Manual contains reference information for Open Server Server-Library.
The Open Client and Open Server Common Libraries Reference Manual contains reference information for CS-Library, which is a collection of utility routines that are useful in both Client-Library and Server-Library applications.
The Open Client and Open Server Programmers Supplement for your platform contains platform-specific information for programmers using Open Client and Open Server. This document includes information about:
Compiling and linking an application
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The Installation and Release Bulletin Sybase® SDK DB-Library Kerberos Authentication Option contains information about installing and enabling the MIT Kerberos security mechanism to be used on DB-Library. DB-Library only supports network authentication and mutual authentication in the Kerberos security mechanism.
The Open Client and Open Server International Developers Guide provides information about creating internationalized and localized applications.
The Open Client Embedded SQL™/C Programmers Guide explains how to use Embedded SQL and the Embedded SQL precompiler with C applications.
The Open Client Embedded SQL™/COBOL Programmers Guide explains how to use Embedded SQL and the Embedded SQL precompiler with COBOL applications.
The jConnect for JDBC Programmers Reference describes the jConnect for JDBC product and explains how to access data stored in relational database management systems.
The Adaptive Server® Enterprise ADO.NET Data Provider Users Guide provides information on how to access data in Adaptive Server using any language supported by .NET, such as C#, Visual Basic .NET, C++ with managed extension, and J#.
The Adaptive Server Enterprise ODBC Driver by Sybase® Users Guide for Microsoft Windows and UNIX, provides information on how to access data from Adaptive Server on Microsoft Windows and UNIX platforms, using the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) Driver.
The Adaptive Server Enterprise OLE DB Provider by Sybase Users Guide for Microsoft Windows provides information on how to access data from Adaptive Server on Microsoft Windows platforms, using the Adaptive Server OLE DB Provider.
The Adaptive Server Enterprise Database Driver for Perl Programmers Guide provides information for Perl developers to connect to an Adaptive Server database and query or change information using a Perl script.
The Adaptive Server Enterprise extension module for PHP Programmers Guide provides information for PHP developers to execute queries against an Adaptive Server database.
The Adaptive Server Enterprise extension module for Python Programmers Guide provides information about Sybase-specific Python interface that can be used to execute queries against an Adaptive Server database.
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