DataBlade API Programmer's Manual
Chapter 1: Using DataBlade API Functions
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Categories of Functions
The DataBlade API provides functions in the following categories:
Data handling
Getting and setting parameters and environment variables
Handling collections: sets, multisets, and lists
Converting and copying (server only)
Converting between
ASCII
and binary
Converting between code sets (server only)
Managing variable-length data types
Handling null values (server only)
Session, thread, and transaction management
Connecting/disconnecting
Thread management (server only)
Transaction and server processing state changes
Query processing
Sending
SQL
statements
Information about the current statement
General information about statements
General information about results
Retrieving rows and row data
Parameterized queries and cursors
Function execution
Memory management
Save sets
Exception handling
Callbacks
Smart-large-object interface
Smart-large-object creation
Smart-large-object
I/O
Moving smart large objects to and from operating-system files
Manipulating smart-large-object handles
Handling smart-large-object specifications
Handling smart-large-object statistics
Illustra large-object interface (for backward compatibility)
Multirepresentational
ADT
support
Operating-system file interface
Tracing (server only)
Database management (client only)
Miscellaneous
Chapter 12, "DataBlade API Function Descriptions,"
describes the public functions that the DataBlade API provides, in alphabetical order.
DataBlade API Programmer's Manual
, version 9.1
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