Article ID: 116332
Article Last Modified on 3/11/2000
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Open Database Connectivity 1.0
This article was previously published under Q116332
SYMPTOMS
Using SQL Server ODBC driver and SQL Server and if ODBC prepared execution is used, certain floating point values may be incorrectly converted. NOTE: Microsoft Access and Microsoft Visual Basic commonly use the ODBC prepared execution.
For example, consider a SQL Server table with a float column. When an ODBC application successfully executes an insert into that table with the float column value = 2.9 using prepared execution. However, when a query to get the rows with the float values equal to 2.9 is executed, no rows are returned from SQL Server. The following query is an example:
CREATE TABLE test(col1 float)
INSERT into test VALUES(2.9)
SELECT col1 FROM test WHERE col1=2.9
However, the following query shows the row with col1=2.9
SELECT * FROM test
This does not happen when the insert is done from a DB-Library (DB-Lib) client tool, or if direct, non-prepared execution is used. For the SQL Server driver, if the users do not have CREATE PROC permission, direct, non-prepared execution is used.
In case of Microsoft Access and Visual Basic, the behavior is exhibited by doing the insert into either an attached table or by creating the dynaset, followed by running the query to retrieve the records where float column equals the value inserted.
For example,
Dim db As Database
Dim ds As Dynaset
Set ds = db.CreateDynaset("SELECT * FROM test")
ds.AddNew
ds.Fields("col1") = 2.9
ds.Update
Then a query which checks for equality of the float column to the value inserted does not show the record inserted above, whereas a non-qualified query shows the record. For example, the recordset for the ds1 dynaset does not show the record inserted, whereas ds2 dynaset will.
Set ds1 = db.CreateDynaset("SELECT * FROM test WHERE col1=2.9")
Set ds2 = db.CreateDynaset("SELECT * FROM test")
For an ODBC application writer, the following steps will produce the behavior:
//Prepared execution to update the table
SQLPrepare: INSERT INTO test VALUES (?)
//Set parameters for the above prepared stmt
SQLSetParam:
//Execute the previously prepared stmt
//and verify that it returned SQL_SUCCESS
SQLExecute:
//Execute the following query
SQLExecDirect: SELECT * FROM test WHERE col1=2.9
And then retrieve the result to see that the record inserted above does not show up. However, executing the following shows the record inserted above:
//Execute the following query
SQLExecDirect: SELECT * FROM test
CAUSE
The difference in behavior is because in the case of prepared execution, the ODBC driver is doing the conversion to float; whereas in the case of non-prepared execution and DB-Lib client tools, SQL Server is doing the conversion.
WORKAROUND
To workaround this problem, you can do an explicit convert on the SQL Server using a statement similar to the following:
UPDATE test SET f= (CONVERT(FLOAT, CONVERT(VARCHAR, col1)))
You can also do the same thing within a trigger to automatically update the value for all new records inserted.
Please note that this problem does not occur using pass-through mechanism since in that case, the conversion is done by SQL Server.
Additional query words: 1.01.2807 VB DBLibrary stored procedure
Keywords: kbprb KB116332
