On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:53:50AM -0500, Anders Nilsson wrote:
> The situation:
>    A loop that inserts thousands of values into a table.
>    In hopes of optimizing the bunches of inserts, I prepared

Sorry, but that won't work. ECPG only simulates statement preparation.

>    a statement like the follows:
> 
>    "insert into some_table_name ( value, id, date ) values ( ?, ?, ? )"
> 
>    then executing the prepared statement identifier numerous times 
> using already declared host variables.
> 
> The problem:
>     Some of these values are null. Is there a way to specify a null
>     value without having to rewrite the statement with the explicit NULL
>     replacing the "?" ?

Yes, use an indicator when instanciating the statement.

>     (If this works) if I were to use indicator variables when 
> inserting, what would the syntax be? So far, indicator variables work 
> great when fetching, though I just can't seem to get it right when 
> inserting / updating. Or, if there is another method to specify NULL 
> values, that would be great as well.

Just an example from the regression suite:

/* use indicator in insert */
exec sql insert into test (id, str, val) values ( 2, 'Hi there', :intvar 
:nullind);

So this is essantially the same as with fetch.

Michael
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