Question

VFPOLEDB provider does not allow me to execute multiple statements at once.

Asked by: acampos

Hello. I have an web application.
We had ODBC provider to execute queries against a foxpro database. When i was using the ODBC provider i can put multiple statements in one command string.

Ex: "SELECT * FROM table!;SELECT * FROM table2;SELECT * FROM table3"

Now we changed to VFPOLEDB provider. When i try to execute the same statement i get an error telling me that "THE PROVIDER DOES NOT ALLOW TO RETURN MULTIPLE DATASETS" something like that. Now, when I execute other commands than SELECT like INSERT or UPDATE, ex: INSERT INTO.....;UPDATE table1....;....;" then it executes the first one only. It does not return any error message or any message at all if it executed all of the statements or why it executed only the first one.

Is there any other provider that I can use?

Thank You

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2008-11-26 at 09:09:51ID23937951
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Answers

 

by: CaptainCyrilPosted on 2008-11-26 at 12:25:11ID: 23045354

Can you run each command by itself?

I never worked with the OLE DB Provider but it seems it does not accept the commands separated by ";".

 

by: acamposPosted on 2008-11-26 at 13:51:14ID: 23046046

Yes, that's what we are doing but is hitting performance tremendously because of multiple roundtrips to the database.

I beileve it might be related to prevention of SQL Injection. I am just saying, not quite sure.

 

by: CaptainCyrilPosted on 2008-11-26 at 22:32:10ID: 23047972

I have not worked with VFP using these features. I am sorry that I can't help you further with this.

 

by: Olaf_DoschkePosted on 2008-11-26 at 23:45:06ID: 23048153

With OLEDB Provider you can execute Execscript. So in general the following would execute. There are two downsides:

a) string delimiters [ and ] are delimiting the script for execscript and not allowed within the code, you can of course use " or ' for enclosing the script.

but more important

b) You need SETRESULTSET() to specify what OLEDB should return as result recordset, but you can only mark one cursor as a resultset.

Bye, Olaf.

lcOBDCCommand = "SELECT * FROM table1;SELECT * FROM table2;SELECT * FROM table3"
lcOLEDBCommand = "Execscript(["+chrtran(lcODBCCommand,";",chr(13))+"])" 
                                              
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