From: | "Jackson, DeJuan" <djackson(at)cpsgroup(dot)com> |
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To: | Sbragion Denis <infotecn(at)tin(dot)it>, Byron Nikolaidis <byronn(at)insightdist(dot)com>, "Jose' Soares Da Silva" <sferac(at)bo(dot)nettuno(dot)it> |
Cc: | interfaces postgres <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | RE: [INTERFACES] Re: NEW ODBC DRIVER |
Date: | 1998-05-11 17:07:44 |
Message-ID: | F10BB1FAF801D111829B0060971D839F27C5B2@dal_cps.cpsgroup.com |
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One word 'BASIC'.
-DEJ
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sbragion Denis [SMTP:infotecn(at)tin(dot)it]
> Sent: Monday, May 11, 1998 11:15 AM
> To: Byron Nikolaidis; Jose' Soares Da Silva
> Cc: interfaces postgres
> Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: NEW ODBC DRIVER
>
> Hello,
>
> At 08.35 11/05/98 -0400, Byron Nikolaidis wrote:
> >As for the BOOL problem, I tried to return it as a SQL_BOOL, but
> Access
> >displayed it as 0=FALSE, and (-1)=TRUE. Why does TRUE translate to a
> -1, I
> >have no idea. But for that reason, I chose to make it a character
> type
> >instead.
>
> This is an MS brain damage implementation of Booleans. It is used this
> way
> starting from MS Access 1.0 up to VB 5.0. I don't know why MS decided
> to
> use this convention in the early MS Access 1.0 age but for
> compatibility
> reason they had to retain it up to the most recent version of their
> development programs.
>
> Bye !
>
> Dr. Sbragion Denis
> InfoTecna
> Tel, Fax: +39 39 2324054
> URL: http://space.tin.it/internet/dsbragio
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