Re: ODBC formatting

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Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> Mike777 wrote:
> > 
> > I can read my ODBC databases, but I'm having a tough time figuring out how
> > to
> > interpret somee of the data types.

> > Is this just a fault in the ODBC driver that I'm using and therefore there
> > is
> > "no hope"?  Or is there a format I can use to visually display these values
> > properly?
> 
> I think this is the fault of the wrapper.  Looking at the code, it appears
> to interpret a SQL_INTEGER as an unsigned int, which seems incorrect.
> 
> And it doesn't understand SQL_SMALLINTs at all.

Should I just plan on insisting that all data be text based (even numbers) or is
there some wrapper modification I should consider (I'm certainly willing to edit
odbc.e to change the way it deals with SQL_INTEGER and SQL_SMALLINT)?

Mike

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