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SQLAPI++ Library

Full History

20 December 2012

Version 4.0.3 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Informix: Added Unicode support.
• SQLServer: Use ODBC API by default instead of OLEDB, ODBC client allowed with MinGw.
• General: Fixed bug with dummy data converter that can produce LOB/Long data reading problems (thanks Peter Klotz).
• SQLite: Start transaction indirectly before the first query executed (thanks Frank Hilliger).
• Sybase: Added 15.7 context support.
• DB2: Fixed LOB/LONG field reading (thanks Fernand Alcatrao).
• SQLServer: ODBC API, fixed bug with connection string parsing (thanks Hide Ishikuri).
• Sybase: Don't using read only cursor by default (thanks Ian Hodgkinson).
• DB2: Use trusted connection when username is empty.
• General: Fixed procedure parameters binding (thanks Joel Baby Jose).
• ODBC: Added Unicode support for Linux/Unix.
• SQLite: Added #ifdef-#endif for static sqlite3_table_column_metadata (thanks Jesus Malo Poyatos).
• PostgreSQL: Added PQping/PQpingParams API functions.
• PostgreSQL: Fixed connection code bug when application name specified (thanks Alexander Horak).
• SQLite: Fixed problem with string data conversion in Unicode version (thanks Jacob Pedersen).

29 October 2012

Version 4.0.2 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• General: Fixed SAString binary length calculation (thanks Christian Schmitz).
• PostgreSQL: Added support for executing PostgreSQL function.
• General: Bind variable can start with '_' and comment processing added ('--' until end-of-line and /* .. */, thanks Georgiy Pakhutin).
• PostgreSQL: Added processing for PQsetdbLogin pgoptions parameter passed with the connection string.
• SQLServer: Added DBPROP_SSCE_DBCASESENSITIVE connection optioon for CompactEdition (thanks Jacob Pedersen).
• ODBC: Binary field Interpreted as a long binary if the column size is 0 (thanks Scott at touchnet).
• DB2: Added Unicode support for Linux/Unix (thanks Jonathan González Encarnación).
• Sybase: Added timeout message processing into callback function (CS_TIMEOUT works now, thanks Michael Graf).
• SQLServer: Added SSPROP_INIT_TRUST_SERVER_CERTIFICATE OLEDB connection option.
• SQLite: Added sqlite3_table_column_metadata API fuinction.
• MySQL: Added function support.
• General: Fixed using wcscasecmp for MacOS X (thanks Christian Schmitz).
• MySQL: Fixed procedure/function parameters parsing (thanks icqwjj).
• InterBase: Fixed query preparing and executing with national symbols, Unicode version (thanks Petr Liska).
• SQLServer: Fixed IssNCliCursor::ConvertString and IssOleDbCursor::ConvertString virtual methods(thanks Petr Liska).
• Sybase: Fixed IsybCursor::ConvertString virtual method.
• InterBase: Fixed IibCursor::ConvertString virtual method.
• SQLite: Fixed SACommand::isResultSet always returns true.
• General: Fixed SAString::SetUTF16Chars method (avoid crash when the source string is NULL).
• General: Avoided double conversion of UTF-8 and UTF-16 data (SA_STRING_EXT required, thanks Christian Schmitz).
• General: Fixed UTF-16 code (wrong conversion).
• General: SONAME added for the shared library (thanks Pobinger Gerhard Stefan).

1 June 2012

Version 4.0.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• General: SA_MINDEP build option replaced with SA_RUNTIME=(dynamic|static).
• MySQL: Fixed VARCHAR field data truncation with statement API (thanks Abhay Rawat).
  
• Oracle: Fixed NCLOB/NCHAR/NVARCHAR reading for UTF16 encoding.
• General: Unicode Linux/Unix configuration is supported now (except ODBC).
• General: Certain SAString methods return SIZE_MAX now instead of (-1).
• General: Changed all internal buffer size types for size_t.
• PostgreSQL: Fixed time string parsing(thanks Andrew Smolko).
• PostgreSQL: Fixed string escaping.
• ODBC: Fixed SQLDriverConnect related bug (thanks Mike Moening).
• SQLite: Added backup API functions (thanks Dave Fileccia).
• General: SADateTime default constructor is public again.
• General: SAValueRead::asInterval() method substracts SADateTime(0.0) from SA_dtDateTime value instead of the current time.
• SQLite: Added "SQLiteTransactionType" connection option (thanks Frank Hilliger).
• SQLServer: Ready for SQL Server 2012 Native Client.
• Oracle: Function returned value parameter name changed from "Result" to "RETURN_VALUE".

4 November 2011

Version 3.8.3 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• PostgreSQL: Added support for PQfformat API function.
• Sybase: Added SA_SYBASE_LARGE_IDENTIFIERS build option (CS_NO_LARGE_IDENTIFIERS uses by default).
• Sybase: Added CS_SYB_CHARSET connection option (thanks Leonid O Volkov).
• PostgreSQL: Added SA_RepeatableRead isolation level support (actual for PG 9.1, thanks Andrew Smolko).
• PostgreSQL: Fixed binary values escaping (thanks combit.net and Bjoern Eggstein).
• MySQL: Fixed API mysql_ssl_set_t for the modern parameter set (thanks Robert Osada).
• General: Fixed SACommand::ParseInputMarkers method (thanks Michael Gandlin).
• SQLite: Bind SA_dtUlong parameter as 64-bit integer instead of int (thanks Derick Naef).
• General: Align the default buffer length for long/LOB data to sizeof(SAChar) (thanks Emir Subasic).
• DB2: Fixed bug with binding an empty LOB (thanks Martin Rötzl).
• SQLServer: ODBC, fixed empty LOBs binding and reading.
• Informix: Fixed empty LOBs binding and reading.
• ODBC: Fixed empty LOBs binding and reading.
• Oracle: Fixed bug with PL/SQL functions return boolean (thanks Andrew Simmons).

22 June 2011

Version 3.8.2 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• MySQL: Fixed the field describing bug (thanks Brad DeJong).
  
• General: General: samisc.h header moved into general include folder (SAMutex, SACriticalSectionScope classes).
• General: Added SA_ODBC_INCLUDES build option.
• ODBC: Fixed name buffer length for SQLDescribeCol API function.
• ODBC: Added the catalog name into ODBC and MSSQL(ODBC) DescribeParamSP method.
• General: Use neutral value of 'struct tm' DST flag (SADateTime class).
• General: Use ISO format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MI:SS) for SA_dtDateTime values at SAValueRead::asString method.
• Informix: Fixed Informix SAconnection::isAlive.
• Informix: Fixed SACommand::isResultSet.
• General: Fixed SACommand::Destroy.
• Oracle: Fixed bug with package method executing that should be resolved by synonym (thanks Michael Lyle).
• Interbase: Fixed SACommand::isResultSet.
• Interbase: Implemented SA_UNICODE_WITH_UTF8 option.
• Sybase: Fixed SA_UNICODE_WITH_UTF8 option implementation.
• General: SADateTime::SADateTime() constructor is private now.
• General: Added SAGlobals::StringToClient and SAGlobals::ClientToString methods.
• General: Fixed Borland C++ build files.
• General: Added SA_STATIC_SYBASE build option.

20 February 2011

Version 3.8.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• General: Removed SA_SCROLLABLE_CURSOR build option, this features is always available now.
• DB2: Added scrollable cursor support.
• Informix: Added scrollable cursor support.
• SQLBase: Added scrollable cursor support.
• Sybase: Added scrollable cursor support.
• General: Removed SA_UNICODE_WITH_UTF8 build option, this features is always turned on now.
• PostgreSQL: Fixed bug with the application name parameter (thanks Bjoern Eggstein).
• General: Added conversion from numeric value into SAValueRead::asBool method.
• SQLServer: OLEDB, added support for Compact Edition 4.0 (thanks Jacob Pedersen).
• MySQL: Now SAField::FieldSize methods returns the 'character' length for character fields (thanks Jonathan González Encarnación).

26 January 2011

Version 3.7.35 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Oracle: Fixed LOB reading with OCI 10 and above (thansk Anca Elena Arhip).

23 January 2011

Version 3.7.34 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQLServer: OLEDB, fixed the memory leak at 'Check' function (SAExecption throwing, thanks Michael Soliman).
• SQLServer: OLEDB, removed assertion for SQLServer 2008 date and time types.
• ODBC: FreeTDS, fixed the bug with missing first character of the long text/string data.
• SQLite: sqlite3_open_v2() support, the statement is closed when there is no result or an error occurs (thanks Mario Degenhardt).
• MySQL: Added CLIENT_REMEMBER_OPTIONS and MYSQL_OPT_RECONNECT connection options (thanks Steven Van Ingelgem).
• PostgreSQL: Added "APPNAME" connection option (version 9.x and above).
• Sybase: Added correct description of the output procedure parameters (ASE version >= 12.5, thanks Georgiy Pakhutin).
• General: Fixed bug with SAValueRead::asBool() on BigEndian platforms (thansk Vlad Romascanu).
• PostgreSQL: Added 'E' prefix for binary sequnces passed to server version 8.2.4 and above.
• MySQL: Fixed again binding of the binary data (thanks Martin Herb).

31 August 2010

Version 3.7.33 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQLServer: OLEDB, fixed parameter date type name for ICommandWithParameters::SetParameterInfo (thanks Michael Soliman).
• General: SACommand::Param(int) method performance improved.
• MySQL: Fixed binding of the binary data (thanks Martin Herb).
• MySQL: Fixed the error processing when mysql_fetch_row returns NULL (thanks Michael Graf).
• Sybase: Added 15.5 context support.
• Sybase: Added SA_UNICODE_WITH_UTF8 build option support (EXPERIMENTAL).
• MySQL: Added scrollable cursor support (EXPERIMENTAL).
• General: Added SA_32BIT build option (Linux/Unix g++ build files).
• ODBC: 2-byte buffer used with SQLGetData (getting the long field size, thanks David Stewart).
• General: SA_STRING_EXT build option added (string buffer allocation optimization, thanks iontrading.com).
• Sybase: Fix for 64-bit DLL names under Windows (thanks iontrading.com).
• ODBC: Set SQL_ATTR_ODBC_CURSORS later to avoid crash when using iODBC (thanks iontrading.com).
• General: Use C runtime routines at SAString::CompareNoCase (thanks iontrading.com).

2 July 2010

Version 3.7.32 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQLite: Now (if "SQLiteDateValueType" = "DOUBLE") SQLAPI++ interprets a datetime value as a Julian Day JD double value (before we used SADateTime interpretation).
• SQLite: Added "SQLiteDateValueType" option, SQLAPI++ uses "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.SSS" formatted strings for date/time parameters by default.
• SQLite: Changed "SQLiteDateTypes" option default value (now it's "DATE,DATETIME,TIME,TIMESTAMP").
• MySQL: Fixed bug with the binding of zero-length blob- and byte- fields (thanks Taneli Otala).
• Sybase: Connection options "SYBINTL.LIBS", "SYBCOMN.LIBS", "SYBTCL.LIBS", "SYBCT.LIBS", "SYBCS.LIBS" added.
• General: Fixed problem with MacOS X and asctime_r function (thanks Michael Dickey).
• General: More information provided if DBMS API loading fails.
• General: 8-byte data length is allowed for SA_dtULong type.
• SQLite: SA_STATIC_SQLITE build option added.
• SQLite: The server/client version number is returned in common format now (hi- and low-word parts).
• Oracle: SQLT_FLT binding type is used instead of SQLT_BDOUBLE even when it's supported by OCI.
• General: SA_MANIFEST_EMB build option added.

24 March 2010

Version 3.7.31 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• ODBC: Numeric data truncation bug fixed (thanks Gebert, Alfred).
• SQLServer: OLEDB and ODBC, fixed bug with long/LOB data binding (thanks Thomas Häußermann).
• SQLServer: OLEDB, added DBPROP_COMMITPRESERVE command parameter.
• ODBC: fixed bug with long/LOB data binding.
• Sybase: Bind ' ' character for empty procedure parameter strings (thanks Vlad Imshenetskiy).
• General: Borland C++ 5.2 fixes.

10 February 2010

Version 3.7.30 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• General: Added new methods - SAConnection::Reset() and SACommand::Reset().
• PostgreSQL: Fixed memory leak when "UseCursor" option is set (thanks Vlad Romascanu).
• Oracle: Fixed problem with OCI version 8.1.x and 9.0.x.
• SQLServer: Fixed bug with unsigned 32-bit integer parameters (thanks Kyle Stock).
• SQLServer: Fixed problem with [n]varchar|varbinary(max) output parameters (thanks Alfred Gebert).
• SQLServer: Fixed bug with SAParam::setAsBool method (thanks Jacob Pedersen).
• General: Performance improved (Christian Zink).
• Sybase: Fixed bug in error handling (thanks Volodymyr Drobot).
• MySQL: Fixed bug with UTF-8 client charcter set and BLob binding (Jason Tai).
• SQLServer: Fixed SA_tdBool data binding (thanks Jacob Pedersen).
• DB2: Fixed problem with prefetching on 64-bit platforms (thanks Cal Heldenbrand).
• Oracle: Added experimental scrollable cursor support (thanks combit.net and Alexander Horak).
• SQLServer: Added native (ODBC) API support.
• PostgreSQL: Connection option "UseDLLonWin32" replaced by "LIBPQ.LIBS" (can define several library names).
• ODBC: Connection option "UseManagerOnUNIX" replaced by "ODBC.LIBS" (also can define several library names).
• MySQL: Connection option "MYSQL.LIBS" added (can define several library names).
• Oracle: Connection option "OCI8.LIBS" added (can define several library names).
• DB2: Connection option "DB2CLI.LIBS" added (can define several library names).
• Informix: Connection option "INFCLI.LIBS" added (can define several library names).
• SQLBase: Connection option "SQLBASE.LIBS" added (can define several library names).
• SQLite: Connection option "SQLITE.LIBS" added (can define several library names).
• InterBase: Connection option "ClientLibraryName" replaced by "IBASE.LIBS" (also can define several library names).
• Sybase: Bind ' ' character for empty procedure parameter strings (thanks Vlad Imshenetskiy).
• Sybase: SA_PARAM_USE_DEFAULT support added.

14 October 2009

Version 3.7.29 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• General: Added Borland compilation option SA_MINDEP. Now dynamic RTL is used by default with bcc compiler.
• DB2: Fixed bug with Unicode DB2 data type(vargraphic) interpretation.
• General: Fixed Borland C++ SQLServer OLEDB compilation problem (sa_max() using instead of max()).
• SQLite: Fixed bug at the text data conversion with Unicode configuration (thanks Holger Fischer).
• SQLite: Added new SAConection option "SQLiteDateTypes" (thanks Jonathan Gonzalez Encarnacion).
• SQLite: Fixed bug with SAConnection::setAutoCommit functionality (thanks Jonathan Gonzalez Encarnacion).
• Oracle: Fixed temporary LOBs memory leak (thansk Marc Oliver R. Castaneda).
• Sybase: Fixed 64-bit related INT type size bug (thanks Jon Linkins).
• SQLite: Added declared type processing if there are no any rows at the result set (thanks Jonathan Gonzalez Encarnacion).
• SQLServer: Fixed bug with "Execute_riid" option is set to "IID_IStream" (thanks Patrik Luscan).
• MySQL: Fixed datetime and boolean type processing if statement API is used (thanks Christophe Benoit).
• MySQL: Fixed bug with non-SELECt queries if statement API is used (thanks Christophe Benoit).
• General: Fixed bug with SANumeric from string operator (thanks Christophe Benoit).
• Firebird: Fixed 64-bit version (thanks evenreal.com).
• Oracle: Fixed CLOB output parameter reading with ReadLob2 (thanks Gebert, Alfred).
• Oracle: Fixed field and output parameter buffer size for multi-byte client character sets (thanks Gebert, Alfred).

27 May 2009

Version 3.7.28 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQLServer: Added SAConnection OLEDB options "CompactEdition.3.0" and "CompactEdition.3.5" (thanks Johannes Maly).
• SQLServer: Fixed processing of 'real' and 'tinyint' field types for SQLCE (thanks Jacob Pedersen).
• General: Linux/Unix, added SQLAPI_SOLARIS compilation option and fixed pthread compilation problem (thanks Bogdan Pytlik).
• SQLServer: OLEDB, fixed bug with empty second result set at the same scrollable SACommand (thanks Bjoern Eggstein).
• General: Linux/Unix, added SQLAPI_SCOOSR5 compilation option (implemented for SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 by Andrew Thornton).
• General: Linux/Unix, removed stabs+ debug information format specification (thanks Andrew Thornton).
• MySQL: Fixed bug when it was impossible to process several result sets those a procedure returns (thanks Klass, Markus).
• Oracle: Added a code that uses new OCILogRead2 when available (thanks Jeff Huttel).
• MySQL: Fixed problem with prepared statements and different MYSQL_BIND versions (thanks Alexander Petrossian).
• General: Several performance improvements (thanks Mike Moening).
• MySQL: Fixed bug with SA_UNICODE_WITH_UTF8 and text fields when statement API used (thanks Jason at goffconcepts.com).
• DB2: Fixed bug with text fields (UNICODE version).
• General: For 'SACommand::Field(const SAString &sField)' added the second cycle for the field searching by short name (thanks Felix Nawothnig).
• Sybase: Fixed long text field reading (SA_UNICODE).
• Sybase: Added ability to define procedure parameters when the procedure name includes its number (ASE, like 'procedure1;1', thanks Vlad Imshenetskiy).
• Sybase: Added method to detect server type (ASA or ASE) to avoid any extra internal exception processing (thanks Vlad Imshenetskiy).
• SQLServer: Added 2008 OLEDB client support.
• SQLServer: Added 2008 new data type support (thanks Justin Matthews).
• SQLServer: Added fixes those allows to use "ICommandPrepare" = "skip" with procedures (without preparing there was string data truncation, thanks Justin Matthews).
• MySQL: Added using 'KILL QUERY' command instead of mysql_kill with MySQL version >= 5.0 (thanks Andrew Thornton).
• General: Documentation improved (thanks Justin Matthews and Kaarel Odraks).
• Oracle: Fixed double values binding - using SQLT_BDOUBLE rather then SQLT_FLT (thanks Alan Hardin).

22 January 2009

Version 3.7.27 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• General: Now 'SANumeric::operator double() const' again uses strtod() variant but with '.' replaced by localeconv()->decimal_point (thanks Alasdair Richardson).
• General: 'SAGlobals::UnloadAPI() = true' behavior fixed (thanks Christophe Benoit).
• MySQL: Fixed bug at ImyCursor::MySQLEscapeString(), if If a string is passed in that only contains escapable chars (thanks Oliver Watson).
• SQLServer: Fixed bug with scrollable statement reusing that results in wrong result set processing (thanks Alexander Horak).
  

3 December 2008

Version 3.7.26 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• ODBC: Now SA_dtNumeric SQLAPI++ type is used by default for SQL_NUMERIC, SQL_DECIMAL and SQL_BIGINT (before SA_dtDouble was there)..
• ODBC: Added new option SAConnection option ODBCUseNumeric.
• PostgreSQL: Added support for SA_UNICODE_WITH_UTF8 build option (experimental).
• Sybase: sybAPI::DefaultLongMaxLength method added to control max 'long' field size (when the using of ct_get_data is impossible).
  
• Sybase: SAGlobals::SetSybaseMessageCallback method renamed/moved to sybAPI::SetMessageCallback (still EXPERIMENTAL).
• InterBase: Added ability to use new Firebird fb_interpret call instead of unsafe isc_interprete (thanks Diane Downie).
• General: SQLAPI++ parameters and fields buffers allocation optimized (thanks Jeff Huttel).
• Sybase: CS_LOCALE connection option added.
• SQLServer: Fixed bug with numeric parameter presicion (truncation, thanks Jean-Claude Chauve).
• PostgreSQL: Fixed bug with SAParam::setAsULong (thanks Vlad Romascanu).
• Sybase: Added 'date' type support for the stored procedure parameters (thanks Vlad Imshenetskiy).
• Sybase: Fixed problem with the procedure parameters describing when procedure is located in another database (Georgiy Pakhutin).
• ODBC: Added new connection options - SQL_DRIVER_PROMPT,SQL_DRIVER_COMPLETE,SQL_DRIVER_COMPLETE_REQUIRED,DSN.
• SQLServer: Fixed bug with procedure preparation.

12 September 2008

Version 3.7.25 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• General: saConnectionHandler_t callback added at SAConnection::Connect method.
• SQLServer: SQLCE, "CreateDatabase" option added.
• SQLServer: SQLCE, use SA_dtString program type for uniqueidentifier fields.
• Oracle: Fixed memory leak when SYS_REFCURSOR parameters returns a cursor field (thanks mera.ru)
• General: Added compilation option SA_UNICODE_WITH_UTF8. Used with MySQL to turn on utf-8 client character set for SA_UNICODE configuration.
• General: SA_UNICODE configuration. Added SAString methods GetUTF8Chars, GetUTF8CharsLength, SetUTF8Chars.
• Oracle: Fixed option processing OCI_ATTR_CHARSET_FORM=SQLCS_NCHAR for NCLOB binding (thanks Andreas Wenzel).
• Oracle: Fixed binding(SA_UNICODE) CLOB procedure parameters (thanks Marcel Rassinger).
• General: Fixed 'SANumeric::operator double() const' bug with locale settings those use a special character as a decimal delimiter instead of '.'.
• SQLite: Added new API functions - sqlite3_threadsafe and sqlite3_last_insert_rowid.
• SQLite: Fixed wrong API initialization (thanks Peter Klotz).
• SQLite: Added "BusyTimeout" connection option.
• General: Added version info into sqlapi.dll (thanks Frank Hilliger).
• Sybase: SACommand::Cancel should work now (thanks Georgiy Pakhutin).
• SQLServer: OLEDB, SACommand::Cancel works with multiple results (required SQLNCLI, thanks Georgiy Pakhutin).
• SQLServer: OLEDB, the default value of "ICommadPrepare" option was changed to "skip".
• Sybase: "SybaseResultType" and "SybaseResultCount" SACommand options added.
• Sybase: SAGlobals::SetSybaseMessageCallback method added (EXPERIMENTAL, allows to process Sybase messages manually).
• DB2: Added mapping DECFLOAT<->SA_dtString(thanks Dmitry Chaikovsky).

26 February 2008

Version 3.7.24 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• MySQL: Connection options MYSQL_OPT_READ_TIMEOUT, MYSQL_OPT_WRITE_TIMEOUT and MYSQL_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT added.
• MySQL: Version 5.1 supported now.
• Oracle: CLOB/BLOB truncation bug fixed.
• Oracle: REFCURSOR memory leak problem fixed.
• SQLite: Initial support for SQLite added.
• ODBC: Added the special code for situations when the ODBC driver returns 0 bytes instead of SQL_NO_DATA (LongChar reading, thanks Frank Hilliger).
• SQLServer: SQLOLEDB layer modified for Compact Edition 3.5.
• SQLServer: Added Compact Edition specific options. Now CE layer is available at UNICODE version only.
• DB2: Fixed the problem with column names (UNICODE version, thanks Adrian Studer).
• General: Fixed the problem with the SANumeric rounding (thanks Mike Moening).
• MySQL: Added SAInterval parameter processing (thanks Frank Hilliger).

12 October 2007

Version 3.7.23 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• PostgreSQL: The error message includes the diagnostic trouble code now (thanks Helmut Ebersmann).
• MySQL: Fixed bug with affected rows value (thanks Christoph Merten).
• MySQL: Fixed bug with datetime/timestamp second part/fraction (thanks Helmut Ebersmann).
• General: SACommand::ParseInputMarkers fixed for tabulator after parameter name (thanks Adrian Studer).
• SQLServer: IssOleDbCursor::SetParameterInfo fixed for correct type name (thanks to Phillip at spectorsoft.com).
• SQLServer: SQLOLEDB layer works with Compact/Mobile edition now (SQLAPI should be compiled with SA_UNICODE, thanks John Hague).
• Sybase: New scheme of the client API libraries loading , SA_INCLUDES_SYBASE building parameter added (thanks Max Hales).
• Sybase: CS_LOGIN_TIMEOUT and CS_TIMEOUT connection parameters added (thansk Beaty, Robert).
• Oracle/General: Fixed issue with SANumeric/double conversion (thanks Adrian Studer).
• Oracle: Fixed problem with CLOB and varying-width client-side character sets (UTF-8).
• General: Build scripts updated. More samples are provided now.

25 June 2007

Version 3.7.22 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• PostgreSQL: Fixed string escaping bug (buffer size too small, thanks combit.net).
• SQL Server: Added statement preparation for each executing when option "ICommandPrepare" = "SetParameterInfo" used (thanks to Chris Hecker).
• SQL Server: Fixed string parameters buffer size bug on x86_64/SQLOLEDB.
• MySQL: Fixed access violation bug with fetching empty text field data (thanks Albert Perdon).
• MySQL: Fixed bug with non-initialized statement handle (thanks Mario Lavalliere).
• ODBC: The code modified to work correctly with long/blob fields under Linux and FreeTDS driver.
• ODBC: SAConnection::isAlive() uses SQLGetConnectAttr/SQL_ATTR_CONNECTION_DEAD now.
• SQL Server: Added SAConnection parameter "OLEDBProvider" (SQLOLEDB connection).

24 May 2007

Version 3.7.21 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Oracle: "APPNAME" SAConnection parameter added (OCI_ATTR_CLIENT_IDENTIFIER is used, thanks Frank Hilliger).
• MySQL: Fixed bug with SAConnection::isAlive().
• SQL Server: "ICommandPrepare" SACommand parameter value "SetParameterInfo" added (fixes KB235053).
• MySQL: "UseStatement" SACommand parameter added (SQLAPI++ can use MySQL statement API now).
• MySQL: Fixed long character type support with UNICODE.
• Oracle: Fixed CLOB type support with UNICODE.
• ODBC: Fixed access violation bug at IodbcConnection::Check (UNICODE, thanks Jay Sridhar).
• DB2: Fixed possible access violation bug at Idb2Connection::Check (UNICODE).

30 March 2007

Version 3.7.20 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Sybase: Version 15.x support for Linux/UNIX (.so names changed - thanks Ronan O'Sullivan).
• Oracle: Crash fixed with the OCIDateTime descriptor freeing.
• DB2: Unicode support improved.
• General: Added common SAConnection option: "APPNAME", "WSID" (they are supported for SQL Server and Sybase at the moment).
• SQL Server (OLDEDB): Added SAConnection options SSPROP_INIT_FILENAME, SSPROP_INIT_ENCRYPT, SSPROP_INIT_WSID.
• PostgreSQL: Added using of the PQescape* functions if they are available.
• DB2: SA_dtString procedure parameter type is used for the LONG VARCHAR database type.
• MySQL: Added support for multiple result set.
• SQL Server (OLDEDB): x86_64 fixes.
• DB2: All diagnostic messages are combined into SAException error text now.
• Sybase: CS_HAFAILOVER connection parameter added.
• General: Fixed a SADateTime::TmFromDate problem with the rounding.
• DB2: XML type support added.
• DB2: Fixed x86_64 support.

28 December 2006

Version 3.7.19 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Oracle: Added procedure/function support for Oracle PL/SQL BOOLEAN type.
• Oracle: Support for BINARY_FLOAT and BINARY_DOUBLE types.
• Oracle: Memory leak fixed with SYS_REFCURSOR & TIMESTAMP/BLOB/CLOB fields.
• General: Added bool& SAGlobals::UnloadAPI() - prevent from DBMS API unloading.
• General: SADateTime::SADateTime(double dt) - round the fraction result to microseconds.
• General: Added SAInterval class for time intervals (experimental, only MySQL support for now).
• MySQL: Support for multi-result statements.
• MySQL: Set by default connection flags CLIENT_MULTI_STATEMENTS and CLIENT_MULTI_RESULTS.
• SQLBase: Fixed access violation at sqldes() C API function with SQLBase version 10.
• MySQL: Added support for the 'bit' type.
• PostgreSQL: Fixed problem with bytea/text on AIX 64-bit (seems common 64-bit platform problem).
• Sybase: Fixed MinGW version.
• ODBC: Windows x64 fixes. Should work now.
• Oracle: Fixed bug with DateTime parameters and an execution of prepared statements.

27 September 2006

Version 3.7.18 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• General: Added SACommand::operator << (unsigned short Value) and SACommand::operator << (unsigned long Value)
• MySQL: Added "CharacterSet" SAConnection option.
• Oracle: Fixed bug with SADateTime to Oracle OCIDateTime conversion.
• SQLServer: Fixed bug when it was impossible to fetch several result sets with single query.
• MySQL: Added mysql_thread_init() and mysql_thread_end() API functions.
• MySQL: Added mysql_server_end() call before MySQL client library is released.
  

16 August 2006

Version 3.7.17 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• General: AIX, HP-UX and MacOS X support improved.
  
• SQLServer: Added SSPROP_INIT_MARSCONNECTION connection (OLEDB) option.
  
• PostgreSQL: Server side cursor implemented for 'SELECT ...' statements.
• InterBase: Modified to start transaction only when query executed (thanks Fabrice Aeschbacher).
• General: New SQLAPI++ data types added: SA_dtUShort and SA_dtULong.
  
• General: Added SAString methods SAString::MakeUpper(), SAString::MakeLower().
• General: Experimental 'scrollable cursor' functionality implemented (PostgreSQL,MSSQL,ODBC thanks combit.net).
• General: Fixed SACommand::ParseInputMarkers for '=' parameter name delimiter.
• Oracle: Fixed memory leaks and troubles with BLOB and TIMESTAMP descriptors.
• Oracle: UNICODE version uses UCS2 client character set.
• Oracle: Fixed bug at IoraConnection::CnvtNumericToInternal with numbers like [-]0.001
• Oracle: Fixed memory leak with temporary BLOBs (thanks Frank Hilliger).
• General: Experimental methods SAConnection::Destroy() added (to destroy broken connection).
• General: Experimental method SAConnection::isAlive() added (to check if a remote database is alive).
• MySQL: mysql_ping was removed from SAConnection::IsConnected().
• ODBC: Fixed column size and precision for SADateTime input parameters.
• Sybase: Fixed "CS_HOSTNAME" connection option (thanks Ulrich Gievers).
• Sybase: Bug fixed with INTEGER-s on x86-64.
• MySQL: Bug fixed long text/binary procedure parameters.
• Oracle: New SAConnection "UseTimeStamp" option (controls if SQLAPI should use Oracle TIMESTAMP functions).
• Oracle: Fixed bug with procedure datetime parameters.
• DB2: Fixed bug with INTEGER-s on x86-64.
• ODBC: Fixed bug with SAException::ErrMsg() at UNICODE configuration. UNICODE support improved.
• General: Fixed bug at SAString::FormatV(...) on Linux/UNIX (thanks Michael Teske).
• SQLServer: DB-Library client included into MinGW build.
• MySQL: Fixed the procedure parameters parsing code.

28 November 2005

Version 3.7.16 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• General: SAString::Replace(...) - serious bug fixed.

18 November 2005

Version 3.7.15 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• General: Fixed SAString::FormatV(...) (thansk Bernd Holz).
• ODBC: Support for GUID type (thanks Alexander Horak).
• Oracle: SADateTime fraction support.
• General: SAString::Replace(...) was improved (thanks Arthur Finkel).
• MySQL: Fixed the procedure parameters parsing code (thanks Znamenacek Pavel).

12 October 2005

Version 3.7.14 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• General: Fixed memory leak in SAConnection destructor (thanks Diane Downie).
• MySQL: Support for NEWDECIMAL data type.
• SQLBase: Linux/UNIX support.
• General: Fixed UNIX implementation of the SAString::Format for 64-bit integer (thanks Boris Daniel).
• MySQL: Added support for a procedure result set.
• InterBase: Boolean support (InterBase v7).
• PostgreSQL: New connection option "ClientEncoding".
• Oracle: New connection option "ConnectAs" (SYSDBA or SYSOPER, OCI8 only).
• General: MinGW (GNU C++ for Win32) support.
• Interbase: New global option "ClientLibraryName" to define the API library name.
• General: SAString::FormatV fixed for ISO C99 va_copy (thanks Mathew Kuzhithattil Aniyan).
• General: Microsoft Platform SDK integration. X86, IA64, AMD64 target support.
• PostgreSQL: field size, precision, scale support (thanks Alexander Horak).

5 May 2005

Version 3.7.12 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SAConnection::~SAConnection(): possible GPF fixed (thanks Diane Downie).
• SANumeric: 64-bit integer operators and constructor added.
• MySQL: added alpha support for MySQL 5.x procedures.
• SQL Server(OLEDB): MSSQL native error code is returned by SAExeption::ErrNativeCode() now.
• Interbase/Firebird: SADateTime::Fraction() support (thanks Fabrice Aeschbacher).
• DB2: support for SQL_GRAPHIC, SQL_VARGRAPHIC, SQL_LONGVARGRAPHIC  types added.
• General: fixes to compile with VS.NET 2005 under AMD64 (thanks Peter Klotz).
• General: some improvements for threaded applications.
• General: Unusual (not ".so") extensions for shared libraries can be defined at compilation process.
• SACommand::ParseInputMarkers(...): bug fixed with ':' symbol in string constants.

11 August 2004

Version 3.7.11 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• ODBC: connection-level options added ("SQL_ATTR_CONNECTION_POOLING", "SQL_ATTR_CP_MATCH") to control ODBC's connection pooling. 
  For more information see ODBC - Connection and command options.
• MySQL: added support for MySQL clients version 4.1 and higher.
• MySQL: connection-level options added to control client_flag parameter when connecting to MySQL. The following options added: CLIENT_COMPRESS, CLIENT_FOUND_ROWS, CLIENT_IGNORE_SPACE, CLIENT_INTERACTIVE, CLIENT_LOCAL_FILES, CLIENT_NO_SCHEMA, CLIENT_ODBC 
  For more information see MySQL - Connection and command options.
• SQL Server: command-level option added: "DBPROP_REMOVEDELETED". For more information see SQL Server (OLE DB) - Connection and command options .
• Sybase: command-level option added: "ct_cursor". For more information see Sybase - Connection and command options .
• General: small memory leak fixed.

10 January 2004

Version 3.7.10 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• ODBC: bulk fetching support improved as a work-around for some non-compliant drivers.
• Oracle: added support for new date/times types in Oracle 9i.
• Oracle: added read support for interval types. They are defaulted to strings.
• SQL Server: added read support for fields of type VARIANT. They are defaulted to strings.
• SAString:Format(): bug fixed with "I64" option implementation on Windows platform.
• SAString::Format(): small change to better support variable argument list on some picky UNIX platforms.

13 July 2003

Version 3.7.9 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQL Server: new command related option ("SSPROP_INIT_APPNAME") added. For more information see SQL Server (OLE DB) - Connection and command options.
• Oracle: small memory leak fixed with Oracle 9i client.

2 March 2003

Version 3.7.8 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• PostgreSQL: support for TIMESTAMPTZOID type added.
• Oracle: bulk fetch implementation improved for columns of type NUMBER.

1 December 2002

Version 3.7.7 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQL Server (OLE DB): bug fixed when reading large NTEXT columns.
• SQLBase: bug fixed when using Receive Long String variables in stored procedures.

21 September 2002

Version 3.7.6 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• PostgreSQL: int8 datatype support improved.
• Sybase: money datatype support improved.
• MySQL: support for MySQL 4.x client improved.

20 July 2002

Version 3.7.5 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Borland C++ Builder 6 support improved.
• ODBC: new command related option ("PreFetchRows") added. For more information see ODBC - Connection and command options.
• DB2: Bug fixed when fetching with "PreFetchRows" option.
• Oracle: "PreFetchRows" option implementation improved.

13 July 2002

Version 3.7.4 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• InterBase: new connection related options("TPB_LockResolution", "TPB_AccessMode") added. See InterBase - Connection and command options.
• SQL Server (OLE DB): new command related option ("Execute_riid") to set the requested interface for the rowset added. See SQL Server (OLE DB) - Connection and command options.
• Oracle: support for pls_integer and binary_integer types added.

22 June 2002

Version 3.7.3 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• PostgreSQL, MySQL: support for binding/retrieving double values improved(bug fixed when current locale's decimal point is not '.').

15 June 2002

Version 3.7.2 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQLBase: support added for stored commands.
• Oracle: new parameter and field related options added ("OCI_ATTR_CHARSET_ID", "OCI_ATTR_CHARSET_FORM"). See Oracle - Connection, command, parameter and field options.
• Linux/Unix: some changes applied to be compatible with Alpha platform.

1 June 2002

Version 3.7.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQL Server (OLE DB): memory leaks fixed in SAConnection::ClientVersion(), SAConnection::ServerVersion() and SAConnection::ServerVersionString().
• SQL Server (OLE DB): new connection related option("CoInitializeEx_COINIT") to set the COM library initialization mode added. See SQL Server (OLE DB) - Connection and command options.     
• DB2: new command related option added ("ReturnStatus"). See DB2 - Connection and command options.

18 May 2002

Version 3.6.9 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• ODBC (iODBC on Linux/Unix): bug fixed when executing DELETEs or UPDATEs that don't affect any rows (function sequence error).
• PostgreSQL: small memory leak fixed.
• Sybase: new connection related option ("CS_VERSION") to set the version of Client-Library behavior added. See Sybase - Connection and command options.    

4 May 2002

Version 3.6.8 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Oracle (Linux/Unix): bug fixed when calling a stored procedure while server is shutting down.
• Multithreading support improved. 

20 April 2002

Version 3.6.7 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SADateTime::GetCurrentTime() method renamed to SADateTime::currentDateTime(). 
• SQLBase: bug fixed with in/out parameters of type NUMBER.
• SQLBase: bug (microseconds truncation) fixed when selecting date/time values.
• Oracle: support added for logging in using external authentication. 

6 April 2002

Version 3.6.6 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQL Server (OLE DB): New command related option("DBPROP_COMMANDTIMEOUT ") to set command time-out added. See SQL Server (OLE DB) - Connection and command options. 
• Oracle: Bug fixed when selecting ROWID.
• DB2: Support added for stored procedure return status.

16 March 2002

Version 3.6.5 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQL Server (OLE DB): New command related option ("ICommandPrepare") to control current command preparation added. See SQL Server (OLE DB) - Connection and command options.
• _SA macros changed to _TSA macros to be compatible with Microsoft Visual C++.NET.  

7 March 2002

Version 3.6.4 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Oracle: Memory leak bug when calling a stored procedure with REF CURSOR parameter(s) fixed.
• SQL Server: Bug when selecting text and image fields with PreFetchRows option fixed.
• InterBase: Big and high precision numbers support improved.

23 February 2002

Version 3.6.3 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Oracle: Bug when binding using setAsNumeric() fixed.
• DB2 (Linux/Unix): Bug in NUMERIC and DECIMAL data support fixed.

16 February 2002

Version 3.6.2 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Sybase: Support added for new OpenClient 12.5 features.
• SQL Server (OLE DB): Some new rowset options added. See SQL Server (OLE DB) - Connection and command options.

9 February 2002

Version 3.6.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Default parameters value support added. See SAValue::setAsDefault.

29 January 2002

Version 3.5.9 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Big and high precision numbers support improved (Oracle, InterBase, SQLBase, Informix).

12 January 2002

Version 3.5.8 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Oracle: bug when retrieving numeric values fixed.

29 December 2001

Version 3.5.7 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• DB2: big and high precision numbers support improved.

10 December 2001

Version 3.5.6 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Oracle: bug fixed (access violation) when selecting numeric fileds.

5 December 2001

Version 3.5.5 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Sybase: new option to describe whether or not a connection can perform bulk copy operations into a database is now available for Sybase connection ("CS_BULK_LOGIN"). See SAConnection::setOption.
• Big and high precision numbers support improved (Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL). New type SA_dtNumeric added. SeeSADataType_t enum.
• MySQL: reporting precision, scale and nullability improved.

17 November 2001

Version 3.5.4 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Documentation improved.

10 November 2001

Version 3.5.3 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Oracle: new option to specify which overload to call is now available for Oracle command ("Overload"). See SACommand::setOption.
• Oracle: bug fixed when reading data of RAW type.
• DB2: new option is now available for DB2 command ("PreFetchRow"). For more information see: SACommand::setOption.
• SQL Server (OLE DB): new option ("SSPROP_INIT_AUTOTRANSLATE") for configuring OEM/ANSI character translation is available. SeeSAConnection::setOption.

3 November 2001

Version 3.5.2 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• InterBase: commit management improved. New option is now available for InterBase connection ("CommitRetaining"). See SAConnection::setOption.
• Oracle (OCI7): native error number reporting fixed.
• SQL Server (OLE DB): bug fixed when reading data of NTEXT type.

20 October 2001

Version 3.5.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• PostgreSQL support.
• SQL Server (OLE DB): the ability to use DBPROP_SERVERCURSOR rowset property added. See SQL Server (OLE DB) - Connection and command options.
• String and binary data support improved. See SAString object . 

15 September 2001

Version 3.4.7 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• InterBase: bug fixed when binding NULL values.
• MySQL: setting transaction isolation level implemented. 

1 September 2001

Version 3.4.6 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Support for C type bool added. See SADataType_t enum, SAValueRead::asBool, SAParam::ParamType, SAParam::setParamType, SAField::FieldType.

18 August 2001

Version 3.4.4 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQL Server (OLE DB): COM initialization improved.

24 July 2001

Version 3.4.3 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQL Server (DB-Library): bug when returning output parameters from stored procedures fixed.
• InterBase: FireBird client support added.

21 July 2001

Version 3.4.2 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Sybase (Sun Solaris): error when connecting fixed.
• ODBC: returning multiple result sets from stored procedure or batch implemented. 

14 July 2001

Version 3.4.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• MySQL support.
• Sybase: New option is now available for Sybase command ("PreFetchRow"). For more information see: SACommand::setOption
• Documentation improved. See MySQL specific information.

7 July 2001

Version 3.3.4 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• InterBase: bug (stack overflow) when calling stored procedures with no parameters fixed.
• Oracle, SQLBase: SACommand::isResultSet implementation fixed. Now it returns false after result set is completely fetched.
• SQL Server (OLE DB): bug fixed when reading text or image collumns with SQL Server 7.0 client. 

23 June 2001

Version 3.3.2 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Documentation improved. See Transactions and Optimizing Database Performance .

16 June 2001

Version 3.3.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQL Server: Support for using SQL Server OLE DB API added. Default API for accessing SQL Server changed from DB-Library to OLE DB. See: SQL Server specific information.
• > DB2: fetching multiple result sets from stored procedures implemented.
• SACommand::FetchParamsNext method deprecated. See: Executing stored procedures, Returning Output Parameters .
• Documentation improved.

2 June 2001

Version 3.2.5 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQL Server: the ability to use trusted connection added. See: SQL Server specific information.
• > Numeric data reading methods now support type conversion from string data. See: SAValueRead::asShort, SAValueRead::asLong,SAValueRead::asDouble .
• Documentation improved.

19 May 2001

Version 3.2.4 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Sybase: minor changes made to improve multi-threading support.

29 April 2001

Version 3.2.3 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Minor changes made to SQLAPI++ source codes to make it compatible with Sun Workshop Pro compiler.

21 April 2001

Version 3.2.2 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• InterBase: Truncation of VARCHAR fields. Bug fixed.

15 April 2001

Version 3.2.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Sun SPARC Solaris: SIGBUS error (non-alignment of numeric data). Bug fixed.
• Oracle 8i: Ability to bind BLob(CLob) parameters in stored procedures is implemented.

8 April 2001

Version 3.1.6 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQL Server: bug with smalldatetime type fixed.

31 March 2001

Version 3.1.5 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQL Server: Ability to connect to named instances of SQLServer 2000 added. For more information see: SAConnection::Connect

25 March 2001

Version 3.1.4 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Sybase: New options are now available for Sybase connection ("CS_PACKETSIZE", "CS_APPNAME", "CS_HOSTNAME"). For more information see:SAConnection::setOption

18 March 2001

Version 3.1.3 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Oracle: Executing a function in Oracle 8i resulted in ORA-01426. Bug fixed.
• SQL Server: Bug fixed when binding parameters to a command with "OpenCursor" option set.
• Sybase: Executing a stored procedure through "Exec" statement resulted in access violation. Bug fixed.

11 March 2001

Version 3.1.2 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Documentation improved. See: Server Specific Guide
• DB2, Informix, ODBC: native error code returned by SAException::NativeError() was invalid. Bug fixed.
• InterBase: Support for database connection cache added. See:SAConnection::setOption

25 February 2001

Version 3.1.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Oracle 8: Access violation when updating/inserting CLob fields. Bug fixed.
• Oracle (Linux/Unix): error "Unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested" when working with output (return) parameters is fixed.
• Oracle: update/insert SQL statement with two or more BLob (CLob) parameters results in "OCI_INVALID_HANDLE" exception. Bug fixed.
• ODBC: bug with DateTime values fixed. 

11 February 2001

Version 3.0.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Unix version released.       
• Oracle: Support for Oracle REF CURSORs (OCI7, OCI8) and nested cursors (OCI8) added. See: SADataType_t enum, SAField, SAParam.
  Using Oracle REF CURSORs
  Using Oracle nested cursors 

28 January 2001

Version 2.3.11 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SAString::Right: bug fixed.
• SQLBase: Automatic detecting of stored procedure parameters was incorrect when parameter's name include numeric digits, underscore (_) or special characters (#, @ or $). Bug fixed.
• SQL Server: "Open Cursor" option improved. See: SACommand::setOption.
• SQL Server (version 7, version 2000): data type for datetime parameters in stored procedures has been detected as SA_dtUnknown. Bug fixed.

21 January 2001

Version 2.3.10 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Sybase: support for returning status result code from stored procedures.  

7 January 2001

Version 2.3.9 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQLServer: bug fixed when calling a stored procedure with "owner.proc_name " syntax on SQLServer 2000.
• ODBC (MS Access): bug fixed when binding long data.

27 December 2000

Version 2.3.8 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQLServer: BIT datatype support added.
• SQLServer: bug (assertion) fixed when working with DECIMAL or NUMERIC fields in debug version.

8 December 2000

Version 2.3.7 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Cancelling queries support added. See: SACommand::Cancel, Examples\Step7.cpp

29 November 2000

Version 2.3.6 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Informix: error "String data right truncation" when binding string parameters is fixed.

19 November 2000

Version 2.3.5 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQLServer: Support for using DB-Library cursor functions  added. See:
  SACommand::setOption, SACommand Examples

12 November 2000

Version 2.3.4 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• InterBase: Support for client character set declaring added. See:
  SAConnection::setOption
• InterBase: Support for connection with a role added. See:
  SAConnection::setOption

5 November 2000

Version 2.3.3 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Date/time support improved. SADateTime::GetCurrentTime method added. See:
  SADateTime::GetCurrentTime

29 October 2000

Version 2.3.2 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• SQLBase: Support for Cursor-context preservation. See:
  SACommand::setOption
• SAString &SAConnection::Option(const SAString&) is replaced by SAConnection::setOption
• SAString &SACommand::Option(const SAString&) is replaced by SACommand::setOption

19 October 2000

Version 2.3.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• InterBase: Support for SQL Dialect 2 and 3 added. SQL Dialect is now customizable. See:
  SACommand::setOption
• InterBase: Bug fixed when reading DECIMAL and NUMERIC fields from database

15 October 2000

Version 2.2.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Fraction of a second (milli, micro, nano seconds) support added. See:
  SADateTime::Fraction
• Date/time support improved. See:
  Working with date/time values
  SADateTime

6 October 2000

Version 2.1.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Date/time support improved. See:
  Working with date/time values
  SADateTime

26 September 2000

Version 2.0.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Linux version released.
• Informix: error when calling stored procedures with no parameters is fixed.
• Informix: error when describing stored procedure input parameters is fixed.
• Informix, DB2: GPF when handling errors fixed.
• Oracle OCI7: multi-threaded support added.
• Documentation is improved. A great number of examples added.

Supports Oracle, SQLServer, Sybase, DB2, Informix, InterBase, SQLBase and ODBC.

5 September 2000

Version 1.6.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Sybase: returning multiple result sets from stored procedure or batch is implemented.
• SQL server: returning multiple result sets from stored procedure or batch is implemented.
• Error when compiling with Borland compilers using data alignment other than 8 bytes fixed.

Supports Oracle, SQLServer, Sybase, DB2, Informix, InterBase, SQLBase and ODBC.

25 August 2000

Version 1.5.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Sybase support (both ASE and ASA).
• Oracle8: Error reporting improved when calling non-existent procedure(function) from existent package (f.ex., sys.dbms_output.aaaaaa).
• SQL server: the ability to connect to default database is implemented.
• SQL Server: SAException::ErrNativeCode always returned 0 (not native error code). Fixed.
• DB2, Informix, ODBC: bug fixed when calling stored procedures with schema (f. ex., tester.TestProc)
• Microsoft VC++ 5.0 backward compatible.
• Oracle 7.3.3 client - loading error fixed.
• DB2, Informix, ODBC: bug fixed when a searched update or delete statement that does not affect any rows is executed.
• DB2, Informix, ODBC: bug when returning strings from stored procedures fixed.
• Error when linking with Borland compilers fixed

Supports Oracle, SQLServer, Sybase, DB2, Informix, InterBase, SQLBase and ODBC.

31 July 2000

Version 1.4.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Informix support
• Documentation improved

Supports Oracle, SQLServer, Sybase, DB2, Informix, InterBase, SQLBase and ODBC.

20 July 2000

Version 1.3.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• DB2 support
• BFILE support in Oracle OCI8
• Bug in Oracle when binding BLobs fixed
• Bug in SQLServer when reading timestamp fields fixed
• Bug in SQLServer when binding TEXT fields

Supports Oracle, SQLServer, DB2, InterBase, SQLBase and ODBC.

14 July 2000

Version 1.2.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Bug in ODBC implementation when fetching character data (in some cases data can be truncated) fixed
• Possibility of getting error offset (SAExecption::ErrPos)
• Autocommit management (SAConnection::AutoCommit and SAConnection::setAutoCommit)
• Documentation improved

Supports Oracle, SQLServer, InterBase, SQLBase and ODBC.

10 July 2000

Version 1.1.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

New features:

• Support for managing transaction isolation levels added
• Transaction policy on SQLServer changed. Now all commands from one connection are in the same transaction
• Reported bugs fixed
• Documentation improved

Supports Oracle, SQLServer, InterBase, SQLBase and ODBC.

19 June 2000

Version 1.0.1 of SQLAPI++ library released.

Supports Oracle, SQLServer, InterBase, SQLBase and ODBC.