Hi, firstly thanks for your answer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] works very very well ! We are doing a very hard work with mySQL , used as main database inside our ERP Oasi. (instead of DB2 or ORACLE). We have a performance problem with memory usage. the process accesses to database via ODBC (iodbc2-12+myodbc2.50.22) and all seems to be OK, except for the memory usage. We have a table with 1,5 millions of record that a client program needs to scan and the client process size grows up because it reserves memory to store rows. do_query(), inside execute.c calls mysql_store_result(), and in this way all the data is transefferd to the client. I tryed to uncomment the portion of the code above in execute.c having: ............................................................................. ................................ if (stmt_options.cursor_type == SQL_CURSOR_FORWARD_ONLY) stmt->result=mysql_use_result(&stmt->dbc->mysql); else stmt->result=mysql_store_result(&stmt->dbc->mysql); ............................................................................. ................................ and I have set the correct option before the SQLPrepare() statement: SQLSetStmtOption(vst->startHstmt,SQL_CURSOR_TYPE,SQL_CURSOR_FORWARD_ONLY); I don't need the scrolled cursor, so in this way the driver calls mysql_use_result saving a lot of memory. It works, but when I execute another query, building a different statement, with or without setting the statement option for the cursor type, (note that the code perform another SQLAllocStatement()), i got this error: ----------------------- SQL error : -1 line number : 107 SQL state : S1000 native error code : 2014 [TCX][MyODBC]Commands out of sync; You can't run this command now the query is: [select * from archcont where codcon = ?] archcont is another table, a little one. I know that the comment in execute.c says: /* We can't use USE_RESULT because SQLRowCount will fail in this case! */ but i don't need to use SQLRowCount when i set the cursor type as SQL_CURSOR_FORWARD_ONLY, of course. Anyway, if there is another method to save memory, please let me know how I can do it, without change my code (if it is possible). Regards marcello ------------------------------------------------ marcello giovagnoli Logical System s.r.l. Via Rocco Scotellaro 23 60035 JESI AN ITALY e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php