New column binding and commands

As promised in a previous post, I changed the way columns are bound in the CRowset class so that the class retains all the important column information retrieved from the IColumnsInfo interface, but also the binding offsets. You can see all of this at work in the new version of CRowset in the sample files.

You will also find the first implementation of the CCommand class, an abstraction over the OLE DB Command object. This first implementation is very simple and allows only for execution of a command text (no parameters yet) returning a CRowset and/or an affected row count.

Using a CCommand object is very simple (much like using CTable):

CCommand command(m_session);

command.SetText(_T("SELECT * FROM Employees"));
hr = command.Execute(m_rowset);

Start by declaring a CCommand object passing the open CSession object as parameter. Next, set the command text and then call execute passing a CRowset object as parameter. You can now use the rowset to navigate the rows and retrieve data.

Note that the returning rowset may not have a bookmark (not in this case, anyway) so you must be careful how you index the resulting columns. Remember that CRowset::GetColumnCount returns the total number of columns including the bookmark, if present. Also, columns are referred to by their ordinal position and the first data column is always at ordinal 1, so if you are iterating through all columns using GetColumnCount, make sure you always start at 1 and also add 1 if the rowset does not have bookmarks (see CRowset::HasBookmark).

Finally, if you don't set any specific command properties (as in this case) you get a forward-only cursor, so there is no going back...

Sample files: EditRow5.zip, oledbcli4.zip

P.S.: Don't try to use the EditRow sample to edit rows coming from the command rowset! I just adapted the sample to show how easy it is to display command data. The resulting is read-only.