sybperl-l Archive

From: tim dot wilson at barclayscapital dot com
Subject: Query re Sybase::CTlib's ct_sql returning alot of data
Date: Aug 16 2000 4:17PM

I suppose this query is going directly to you Michael but I am interested if
anyone else has experience in using ct_sql (or Simple's methods) to return
large datasets

In the document 'Sybperl 2.0: Using the Sybase::CTlib module' 

(http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler/Sybperl/article.html)

Michael Peppler states regarding the use of ct_sql in the section One Step
Queries:

"
This one step call is very useful for writing simple, clear code, but has
one major drawback: the entire query result set is loaded into memory, which
makes it unusable for processing large result sets. 
"

When you say unusable for large result sets, do you mean there is a problem
with either ctlib or Sybase::CTlib when returning large result sets or that
this would fail if you ran out of memory during the operation.

Tim Wilson
 





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