Hi friends,
I need to know the number of records selected by a cursor before processing the first record fecthed by cursor. Does any variable of SQLCA will store the number of records by the cursor ?. Any other possible way apart from using select count(*) with the cursor where clause condition ?
Number of records fetched in a cursor
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first of all, db2 has rows and columns. files have records and fields.
secondly, your terminology needs to improved.
what you want to know is:
is there a way to determine the size of a result set other than count(*)?
no,
the sqlerrcd3 will provide you with the number of rows involved with an
INSERT
DELETE
UPDATE
SELECT
for each invocation of SQL
if you have 3 rows in the result set and you do single FETCHs, each FETCH
(if sqlcode = +000)
will return +1 in sqlerrcd3.
by the way, sqlerrcd3 functions for both cursors and singleton selects.
i would question why one would need the count of the result set
prior to actually FETCHing rows.
sounds like poor/inexperienced programming
i am moving this thread to INTERVIEW QUESTIONS as the topic fits there better.
db2 application programming forum is for db2 problems for more advanced topics
than posed by beginners/INTERVIEW Questions.
secondly, your terminology needs to improved.
what you want to know is:
is there a way to determine the size of a result set other than count(*)?
no,
the sqlerrcd3 will provide you with the number of rows involved with an
INSERT
DELETE
UPDATE
SELECT
for each invocation of SQL
if you have 3 rows in the result set and you do single FETCHs, each FETCH
(if sqlcode = +000)
will return +1 in sqlerrcd3.
by the way, sqlerrcd3 functions for both cursors and singleton selects.
i would question why one would need the count of the result set
prior to actually FETCHing rows.
sounds like poor/inexperienced programming
i am moving this thread to INTERVIEW QUESTIONS as the topic fits there better.
db2 application programming forum is for db2 problems for more advanced topics
than posed by beginners/INTERVIEW Questions.
Dick Brenholtz
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not what you meant.
JCL, SQL and code in programs have an irritating habit of doing what you say,
not what you meant.
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