"Jim Starkey" wrote:

>>Suppose my program prepares a statement, specifically a query.
>>How does it determine how much memory it should allocate for buffers if the
>>only answer from the server is "this is a string", for example?
>>
>>
>>
> ResultSet::getString returns a null terminated string. You use it,
> assign it to a string class, and copy it before the next "next()". You
> don't worry about the length. It's a string.

Does it mean binary data (containing zeros) will not be supported any more ?

Ivan