Changes in MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.0.8 (2006-11-17, Beta)

Connector/ODBC 5.0.8 is the fourth Beta release.

This is an implementation and testing release, and is not designed for use within a production environment.

• Functionality Added or Changed

• Bugs Fixed

Functionality Added or Changed

• Also made SQL_DESC_NAME only fill in the name if there was a data pointer given, otherwise just the length.

• Fixed display size to be length if max length isn’t available.

• Made distinction between CHAR/BINARY (and VAR versions).

• Wildcards now support escaped chars and underscore matching (needed to link tables with underscores in access).

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed binding using SQL_C_LONG.

• Fixed using wrong pointer for SQL_MAX_DRIVER_CONNECTIONS in SQLGetInfo.

• Set default return to SQL_SUCCESS if nothing is done for SQLSpecialColumns.

• Fixed MDiagnostic to use correct v2/v3 error codes.

• Allow SQLDescribeCol to be called to retrieve the length of the column name, but not the name itself.

• Length now used when handling bind parameter (needed in particular for SQL_WCHAR) - this enables updating char data in MS Access.

• Updated retrieval of descriptor fields to use the right pointer types.

• Fixed handling of numeric pointers in SQLColAttribute.

• Fixed type returned for MYSQL_TYPE_LONG to SQL_INTEGER instead of SQL_TINYINT.

• Fix size return from SQLDescribeCol.

• Fixed string length to chars, not bytes, returned by SQLGetDiagRec.