Actually, that is nothing like what he is using.

Jason

Jeff Lynn wrote:

> adriano,
>
> I has just started using FB only a couple of weeks via C/C++ API, so
> may be I can share some of my learning with you to ease the learning.
> I didn't use VB but I think the concept is similar.
>
> 1) You have to attach to the database, in C API,
> isc_attach_database(...) will do the trick. Be aware that if you are
> using embedded database, the standard OS specific database file name
> (with full path) is required. If you are using the client/server
> model, then you have to provide "localhost:C:\aPath\dbfilename" or
> "MyServer:C:\aPath\dbfilename".
>
> 2) By default, FB database use default userId "SYSDBA" and password
> "masterkey", so you have to define a DPB to define the connection
> parameter for userId and password, to be used in the
> isc_expand_dbp(...) api call prior to calling the
> isc_attach_database(...).
>
> 3) Then you need to start a transaction using the
> isc_start_transaction(...) call.
>
> 4) Next depends on whether you want to execute a simnple SQL that does
> not required any parameter marker or not. For non parameter marker
> stmt, say you dynamically construct you SQL on the fly and only
> execute it once, they you can use the isc_dsql_execute_immediate(...)
> or its variant. You can still use this execute immediate with
> parameter marker, provided you construct your sqlda block.
>
> 5) Then you can commit the trans using isc_commit_transaction(...) call,
> followed by freeing the sqlda, if allocated, and the database handle
> resulted from the attach database. A word of caution if you use
> sqlda, you must make a copy of the allocated memory to be used to free
> them later on because after passing sqlda to any of the apis that use
> it, the address will be modified such that free the sqlda using the
> used pointer (in C/C++, I am not sure about in VB), will crash you
> program due to memory access exception.
>
> 6) Or else you can allocate a statment, using the
> isc_dsql_allocate_statement(...), then prepare it using the
> isc_dsql_prepare(...) api before you can use the isc_dsql_execute(...)
> api to execute.
>
> 7) You can use either input sqlda or output sqlda or both in these stmt.
>
> 8) You can use isc_dsql_sql_info(...) and walk the returned clustered
> info to determine affected row count.
>
> 9) There is no explicit result set, just like any non-object oriented
> API interface, but you can directly call the isc_dsql_fetch(...) to
> iterate thru the implicit result set. Here you will fine the use of
> output sqlda much more convenient to extract attribute for each
> fetched row. You also have to take care of date, time or timestamp
> datatype column using the isc_decode_timestamp(...) and its variant to
> map the FB date/time/timestamp encoding into you native programming
> language datatype.
>
> The overall API architecture is different from other database you may
> used to, but that is a fact of life that products evolve over time
> that the architecture and implementation that no two databases are
> alike unless the developers consciously make it so, which is a big
> effort by itself.
>
> So good luck and read up all the doc/books you can find, play with
> shipped examples, if in doubt, post a question to this forum.
> Everyone in this forum are very nice and do not laugh at "stupid
> questions".
>
> So take care!
>
> jml
>
>

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