ODBC Plugin Release Notes

Starting with RB 2006 Release 4, Mach-O applications using the ODBC plugin are only supported on OS X 10.3 or later.  To build an application that runs on OS X 10.2, build a PEF ("OS 9 and OS X") application.

Changes for RB 2008 Release 2:
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- changed method name of GetTypeInfo to GetSQLTypeInfo for compatibility with introspection

Changes for RB 2007 Release 4:
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- performance increase for Windows
- optimization of fetching data
- added "ScrollableCursor" property


Changes for RB 2006 Release 5:
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- fixed extra space appended with db.InsertRecord when string column is empty
- fixed date problem on Mach-O PPC builds


Changes for RB 2006 Release 4:
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- fixed bug that crashed Mach-O applications if iODBC frameworks weren't present
- fixed text truncation bug on db.InsertRecord (cezuvwgp)
- added DSN chooser support for Linux
- fixed extra space appended with db.InsertRecord
- added support for Universal Binaries
- added full support for ODBC on Linux (requires iODBC libraries to be installed if they aren't part of the Linux distro).
- fixed crash when closing a recordset on Mac OS X 10.2.8


Changes for RB 2006 Release 3:
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- added support for console applications
- added preliminary (alpha) support for Linux.  Linux applications with ODBC object will now compile and run, but may crash when ODBC functions are executed.
- re-worked error reporting so that driver error messages are now reported
- added several methods to the ODBCDatabase class for browsing the database schema
- added GetInfo() method for querying driver and database capabilities
- Added IsPrimary and IsNullable information to FieldSchema result set
- Added support for rs.Update and db.InsertRecord methods
- following bug fixes:
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