Informix-ESQL/C Programmer's Manual
Chapter 16: Using a System-Descriptor Area

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A system-descriptor area is a dynamic-management structure that can hold data that a prepared statement either returns from or sends to the database server.

X/O

A system-descriptor area is the dynamic-management structure that conforms to X/Open standards.

The chapter contains the following topics about how to use a system-descriptor area:

Managing a system-descriptor area for dynamic SQL
Using a system-descriptor area to handle unknown values in dynamic SQL statements

For information on the fields of the system-descriptor area, see page 15-5.

The end of this chapter presents an annotated example program called dyn_sql that uses a system-descriptor area to process a SELECT statement entered at runtime.

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