Automated Options Tab

Driver Dependent Menus. If selected, ODBC Test disables those menu items not supported by the driver. For example, if the driver does not support SQLDescribeParam, ODBC Test disables the SQLDescribeParam menu item.

Automatic Error Checking. If selected, ODBC Test calls the Errors All function tool after each ODBC function is called.

Null Terminator Checking. If selected, ODBC Test checks to see that the driver null-terminates all returned character values.

Buffer Overwrite Checking. If selected, ODBC Test fills output buffers with the pattern 0xCA before calling a function. After calling the function, it performs the following tests:

• Checks that the driver writes in the buffer when the function returns SQL_SUCCESS or SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO. For example, if SQLGetInfo returns SQL_SUCCESS, ODBC Test checks that the driver wrote in the InfoValuePtr buffer.
  
  
• Checks that the driver does not write in the buffer when the function returns SQL_NO_DATA, SQL_ERROR, SQL_INVALID_HANDLE, SQL_STILL_EXECUTING, or SQL_NEED_DATA. For example, if SQLGetInfo is called with an invalid InfoType, ODBC Test checks that no data was written in the ParameterValuePtr buffer.
  
  
• Checks that the driver does not write past the end of the buffer. ODBC Test allocates an extra byte at the end of the buffer before calling the function. After calling the function, it checks whether the byte was overwritten. For example, if the BufferLength argument in SQLGetInfo is 10 and the data to be returned is 15 bytes long, ODBC Test checks that only 10 bytes were written in the InfoValuePtr buffer.

  Note   ODBC Test cannot check if the driver writes past the end of an output buffer if that buffer is an array or structure.

Version Numbers. If selected, ODBC Test displays the version number of option values in dialog boxes, such as the values for the InfoType argument in SQLGetInfo.

Bind Bookmark Column. If selected, ODBC Test automatically binds the bookmark column when binding all columns and the SQL_ATTR_USE_BOOKMARKS statement attribute is turned on.