dbwillconvert

Determines whether a specific data type conversion is available within DB-Library.

Syntax

BOOL dbwillconvert (
INT srctype,
INT desttype );

Arguments

srctype

Is the data type of the data to be converted. This parameter can be any of the Microsoft® SQL Server™ data types.

desttype

Is the data type that the source data is to be converted into. This parameter can be any of the SQL Server data types.

Returns

TRUE if the data type conversion is supported; FALSE otherwise.

Remarks

When dbconvert is asked to perform a conversion that it doesn’t support, it calls a user-supplied error handler (if any) and returns -1.

The dbconvert function can convert data stored in any of the SQL Server data types (not all conversions are allowable):

For more information about data type conversions, see dbconvert.

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