MDAC 2.5 SDK - ODBC Programmer's Reference
Chapter 13: Descriptors

Allocating and Freeing Descriptors

Descriptors are either implicitly or explicitly allocated, as described in the following sections.

• Implicitly Allocated Descriptors
  
  
• Explicitly Allocated Descriptors
  
  
• Initialization of Descriptor Fields
  
  
• Automatic Population of the IPD
  
  
• Freeing Descriptors