On 11/7/05, Simon Kirk <Simon.Kirk at pinesoft.co.uk> wrote:
>  Don't panic :) -3 is the ODBC API constant for a null-terminated string
> (SQL_NTS) - so it's perfectly valid - it just makes the driver manager
> (and/or driver) read the string values being sent up until the first null
> terminator character (and for the record I did check in gdb that all the
> strings had the required null termination character - they all did). I did
> wonder whether I should explain that when I posted, and forgot to mention
> it. Ahem. I did try the call with a fixed-length description as well (ie
> putting the real lengths in instead of using the SQL_NTS constant) but it
> made no difference.
>
Ok. Should've remembered that (I wrote these damn drivers for a
living) but luckily I seem to have forgotten most of that awful stuff
:).

So much for the simple explanation :)