Troubleshooting - How to convert Bit to Integer using QODBC
Problem Description:
I am trying to get our ODBC extension module interface working with QODBC. Everything seems to work fine except trying to read SQL_BIT type fields. It causes the Script BASIC interface to error out.
I did a search on Google about the issue and others (Oracle, ...) have a similar issue. Do you have any way to translate the SQL_BIT type to a numeric or a CHAR(1)?
Solutions:
You can convert the Bit field to Integer using below query.
For Example:
In Customer table, IsActive field is of Bit datatype. We will convert it to numeric/integer using below query:
SELECT ListID, {fn CONVERT("IsActive", SQL_Integer)} AS "IsActive" FROM Customer
[Script BASIC Code]
IMPORT odbc.bas
dbh = odbc::RealConnect("QuickBooks Data","","")
odbc::query(dbh,"SELECT FullName, AccountNumber, {fn CONVERT(\"IsActive \", SQL_Integer)} AS \"IsActive\", Balance FROM Account")
FOR x = 1 to 5
odbc::FetchHash(dbh,dbcol)
PRINT Left(dbcol{"FullName"} & STRING(50," "),50),"\t",dbcol{"AccountNumber"},"\t",dbcol{"IsActive"},"\t",FORMAT("% ~-###,###.00~",dbcol{"Balance"}),"\n" NEXT
odbc::Close(dbh)