PRB: Field Width Increases When Use Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver

 Last reviewed: May 2, 1996
Article ID: Q150434
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver version 1.0

SYMPTOMS

When the Visual FoxPro ODBC driver is used to create a numeric field of width 5 with decimal 2, the driver adds two places to the width in order to ensure that the length is of sufficient size. Two positions are added to compensate for the sign and decimal that is normally included in the length in native Visual FoxPro.

CAUSE

When a table is created with a numeric field, the decimal point and sign are counted in the width by Visual FoxPro. However, the ODBC standards do not specify how the decimal and sign should be specified when creating a table.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Create a datasource named temp that is set up for free tables and that points to the C:\Temp directory.

  2. Run the following program:

    h=SQLCONNECT("temp","","") ?SQLEXEC(h,"CREATE TABLE ztest (nfield N(5,2))") ?SQLDISCONNECT(h) USE c:\temp\ztest MODIFY STRUCTURE

Notice that the width is 7 instead of 5. The width was increased by two.

Additional reference words: 1.00 VFoxWin
KBCategory: kbinterop kbprb
KBSubcategory: FxinteropOdbc



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Last reviewed: May 2, 1996
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