On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:53:06PM -0500, Ron Grabowski wrote:
> > $conn = Win32::OLE->new("ADODB.Connection");
>
> Does anyone know if there are benefits to creating objects this way as
> opposed to
>
> $Server->CreateObject("ADODB.Connection");
I don't. This is taken from "Perl-Win32-Database FAQ" at
http://www.fastnetltd.co.uk/Perl
> > $id = $rs->Fields('id')->value;
> > $ts= $rs->Fields('timestamp')->{Value};
>
> I never use the later method to access things from a Recordset.
Witch method You use?
> > ts: Win32::OLE::Variant=SCALAR(0x3a12514)
>
> print $$ts; # try dereferencing it?
use Win32::OLE::Variant; helped globally without to much chahes in code.
> # for some reason Dumper() doesn't like recordset objects
> use Data::Dumper;
> print Dumper $rs->Fields('timestamp');
I think OLE Object is a nasty hack.
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* Tomek
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