In message <3d0379c6$0$8506$cc9e4d1f_at_news.dial.pipex.com>, Niall
Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> writes
>"Jim Smith" <jim_at_jimsmith.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:0g63QcC1Zx$8EwF1_at_jimsmith.demon.co.uk...
>> I am looking for some detailed references on ODBC drivers for SQLServer
>> and Oracle. I am in the middle of porting a SQLserver application to
>> Oracle. Part of the application uses VBScript ASPs and I keep hitting
>> problems which seem to be connected with differences in the way
>> SQLServer and Oracle or their respective ODBC drivers return values in
>> various situations.
>>
>> Example (pseudo code)
>>
>> select max(Anumber) as MAXID rom EmptyTable;
>> if MAXID > 0 then
>> ...
>> end if
>
>Is this pseudo asp or pseudo sql. if the former try if cint(maxid) > 0
>.......
>
The null thing wasn't the best example to choose there were more
problems in other areas.
I've pinned these down a bit further. All the oracle numbers come back
as type vbDecimal (vartype 14) and VBScript can't seem to cope with
that, _even if both numbers in a comparison are vbDecimal!_ It seems
its not an ODBC thing but a problem with VBScript. I am resigned to
putting cint and clng all over the several hundred asp files.
This application is half Java and half ASP. The Java part, once I'd
converted a few SQL strings, worked a treat. I think I'd be quicker
converting the ASP to Java than making the ASP work. I've got to do
PostGres next.
--
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Received on Mon Jun 10 2002 - 01:35:56 CDT
