No, it is not the case. I use ODBC driver and question marks in many
applications, without a problem.

Greetings.

Walter.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Kurt Fitzner <kurt.fitzner@...>wrote:

> **
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to use Firebird as a back end for LibreOffice Base. I have
> downloaded the embedded client and attached it to the ODBC driver, and
> it seems to work except in the case of complex queries that use ODBC
> parameter markers (question marks) for parameter replacement in SELECT
> statements.
>
> First of all, I'd like to make sure this is the problem. The error I'm
> getting is: [ODBC Firebird Driver]Sqlda variable has zero length
> A thread from a support forum for a product that uses FB as a back end
> suggested this error was due to FB not supporting queries that use
> question marks as parameter markers. Is this the case?
>
> Secondly, if that is the case, is there any hope that an upcoming
> release of the ODBC driver will support this? I am quite eager to use
> FB as a back end for my projects.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
>
> Kurt Fitzner
>
>


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