Re: [dba-dev] About data descriptors

2005-08-22 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany
Hi Santiago, > I'm a little confused about [OPTIONAL]s in the API. I was using the ODBC > driver with a PostgreSQL database. The call to createDataDescriptor > doesn't fail, but seems to return nothing. In general, if an OPTIONAL interface is present, it should do what is defined. If it cannot fu

Re: [dba-dev] About data descriptors

2005-08-22 Thread Santiago Bosio
El jue, 18-08-2005 a las 12:11, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany escribió: > Hi Santiago, > > sorry for the delay in answering, this shouldn't have happened, > especially since you're new to this list :-\. So, a late "Welcome" from > my side :) No problem. Sometimes I don't have the tim

Re: [dba-dev] unexpected behavior with HSQL embedded DB case when and coalese commands

2005-08-22 Thread Andrew Jensen
One latst piece of information before I let this go for the moment. Some of the examples of when you must use Column names, and when you MUST have Escape Processing OFF is dependent not only on theHSQL statement but on WHICH data type is passed in. The date to string functions are this way. F

Re: [dba-dev] unexpected behavior with HSQL embedded DB case when and coalese commands

2005-08-22 Thread Andrew Jensen
Hallo Frank No issue for now then. Perhaps it is more fitting in user faq document.anyway. Andrew Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: Hi Andrew. Change the select statement to SELECT CASE DATA WHEN '' THEN 'X' WHEN '' THEN 'Y' WHEN '' THEN 'Z' ELSE '

Re: [dba-dev] unexpected behavior with HSQL embedded DB case when and coalese commands

2005-08-22 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hi Andrew. > Change the select statement to > > SELECT CASE DATA WHEN '' THEN 'X' WHEN '' THEN 'Y' WHEN '' > THEN 'Z' ELSE 'NOTFOUND' END AS "DATA" FROM TESTCASE > > > It still requires that EscapeProcessing = false. The HSQLDB engine is capable of more things that OOo's cross-DB