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| | Dr. Dobb's | SQL Access Group's Call-Level Interface | July 22, 2001 |
 | | The interface would be platform, vendor, database, and language neutral. |
 | | The application allocates memory for an environment handle and a connection handle; both are required to establish a database connection. |
 | | Then, for each column in the result set, the function calls SQLDescribeCol to get descriptive information about the column (that is, its length, scale, and data type), prints an appropriate row of column headings to the standard output, allocates memory to bind the results, and calls SQLBindCol to establish the bindings. |
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