We discovered a restriction in JDBC today. The JDBC spec states that when reading columns from a row in a result set, the rows must be read left-to-right and no rows may be read twice. The spec says that this restriction is for compatibility for some underlying databases. Presumably, this restriction is in place so that a driver may use a stream to retrieve results, which makes a lot of sense when there is a prospect of BLOBs etc. in the result set. This problem surfaced when Larry was processing metadata result sets from SQLServer.
... until the collector arrives ...
This "blog" is really just a scratchpad of mine. There is not much of general interest here. Most of the content is scribbled down "live" as I discover things I want to remember. I rarely go back to correct mistakes in older entries. You have been warned :)
