History Win32::SqlServer

2007-07-11 – 2.003

• Win32::SqlServer now runs on AMD64. In lieu of hardware to test on, IA64 is still unsupported. Note that the bigint data type is handled differently on 64-bit.
• Added a mid-level routine getcoluminfo() that returns information about the columns in the result set(s).
• Added a new parameter to sql() and sql_sp(), $colinfostyle, that permits you to specify that you want information about the columns in the result set included in the return structure. You can opt get only names, only position, or get a hash with detail information.
• Added a new result style, MULTISET_RC, that is very similar to MULTISET, but which has row counts instead of  empty arrays for INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements.
• Re-implemented the conversion initiated by sql_set_conversion() to use the Windows API, rather than relying on certain files being available in System32. This makes about any code-page conversion accessible from Win32::SqlServer. There is a new routine, codepage_convert(), to convert a single value.
• sql_init() now has a fifth parameter, $provider.
• Fixed bug that caused a crash on Vista when an sql_variant value had certain base types.

2006-04-17 – 2.002

Fixed two problems which prevented Win32::SqlServer to run under ASP:

• In the binary distribution, the C run-time is now statically linked with the SqlServer.dll, because ASP did not pick up MSVCR70.DLL when it was only in the same directory as SqlServer.dll. (Workaround was to put MSVCR70 in System32.)
• Fixed a problem caused an ASP page with Win32::SqlServer to fail on second and succeeding invocations.

2005-11-27 – 2.001

Renamed the module to Win32::SqlServer from the original name MSSQL::OlleDB to comply with requirements from the maintainers of the Perl module list (and because the original name was more cute than practical). No other changes.

2005-11-13 – 2.000

This is the first release of MSSQL::OlleDB. It has version number 2.000 since it is a successor module to MSSQL::Sqllib.