FIX: SET ANSI ON Default Setting in VFPODBC Driver (169155)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 3.0
Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 3.0b
Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 5.0
Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 5.0a

This article was previously published under Q169155

SYMPTOMS

Queries with filter criteria run through the Visual FoxPro ODBC (VFPODBC) driver could return fewer records than the same query run in Microsoft Visual FoxPro.

CAUSE

The VFPODBC driver defaults SET ANSI to ON where the default for SET ANSI in Microsoft Visual FoxPro is OFF. This setting cannot be changed in the VFPODBC driver.

RESOLUTION

To work around not being able to use SET ANSI OFF for partial matches, you can either use wildcards in the SQL Select statement, or create an OLE Automation Server in Microsoft Visual FoxPro to manipulate the data in the Microsoft Visual FoxPro database.

Visual FoxPro 6.0 ships with a new Visual FoxPro driver, version 6.00.8167, that fixes this problem.

Wildcard Example

In the example given in the Steps to Reproduce Behavior section below, replace the line:

   ?SQLEXEC(nh,'SELECT * FROM Customer WHERE Cust_id = "A"','cur1')

with the line: ?SQLEXEC(nh,'SELECT * FROM Customer WHERE Cust_id LIKE "A%"','cur1') and the line:

   ?SQLEXEC(nh,'SELECT * FROM Customer WHERE Cust_id = "A"','cur2')

with the line: ?SQLEXEC(nh,'SELECT * FROM Customer WHERE Cust_id LIKE "A%"','cur2') When the above lines are substituted into the sample code below, each Browse window should have four records.

Note that the above workaround will not be fully Rushmore optimized.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This has been corrected in Visual FoxPro 6.0.

MORE INFORMATION

In Drvvfp.hlp (the VFPODBC Help file), there are references to the SET ANSI command being supported in the VFPODBC driver. While issuing this command to the ODBC driver does not return an error, it does not affect the SET ANSI setting.

Drvvfp.hlp also lists the SET ANSI command in the list of unsupported commands.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Run the following from a program in Microsoft Visual FoxPro: CLOSE DATABASES ALL CLEAR ALL CLEAR *Create the datasource pointed to the sample data DECLARE Integer SQLConfigDataSource in odbccp32.dll Integer, Integer, ; String, String lcPath = HOME()+'samples\data' && Check this path and make sure && it points to the folder containing && the Customer table. settings="DSN=VFP Tables"+chr(0)+; "Description=VFP Desc"+chr(0)+; "SourceDB="+lcPath+chr(0)+; "SourceType=DBF" ? SQLConfigDataSource(0,1,"Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver",settings) nh = SQLCONNECT('VFP Tables') ? nh ? SQLEXEC(nh,'SET ANSI OFF') ? SQLEXEC(nh,'SELECT * FROM Customer WHERE Cust_id = "A"','cur1') BROWSE LAST NOWAIT ? SQLEXEC(nh,'SET ANSI ON') ? SQLEXEC(nh,'SELECT * FROM Customer WHERE Cust_id = "A"','cur2') BROWSE LAST NOWAIT ? SQLDISCONNECT(nh) Both Browse windows should have no records.

Modification Type:	Major	Last Reviewed:	5/10/2003
Keywords:	kbbug kbcode kbfix KB169155