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From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler at peppler dot org>
Subject: RE: Sybase::DBlib manual page synopsis has no error checking
Date: Mar 31 2004 3:05PM
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 03:19, Avis, Ed wrote:
> Michael Peppler wrote:
>
> >The documentation for any error states/statuses is in the Sybase
> >DBlibrary docs, available at
> >http://download.sybase.com/pdfdocs/sdg1251e/dblib.pdf
>
> It looks like many routines return either SUCCEED or FAIL.
Correct. However, DB-lib isn't as regular as CT-lib, so some routines
return success/fail status codes, and others return data, with null
values signifying errors.
This is also why CT-lib is preferable to use.
Michael
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