>Can someone give me a quick *complete* example code of setting up a
>connection, performing a small query, and reading back the result?
Any of the standard MySQL clients included in the source distribution
that are written in C provide examples. Some are more brief than others.
Another source of short examples can be found at:
http://www.kitebird.com/mysql-book/
Get the samp_db distribution.
>
>
>The docs conflict in a few places as far as how to declare the data types.
Where?
> (in some places, they are pointers, in others they are not). Also,
>the examples, sadly, just aren't very good. And there is no example
>for
>mysql_use_result(). (the example code uses mysql_store_result())
Which examples aren't good? Which ones show these discrepancies?
Note that the absence of a * doesn't necessarily mean something
is _not_ a pointer. It might be a typedef.
>
>I have tried every combination of pointers and regular datatypes I
>can think of, but I'm still generating errors on compile.
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