Subject Re: [Firebird-Java] Re: JDBC
Does anyone have the code to navigate through record sets is JDBC does not
allow cursor positioning?

How do you move previous, next, first, last, etc...l?

Thanks in advance.


>From: "Roman Rokytskyy" <rrokytskyy@...>
>Reply-To: Firebird-Java@yahoogroups.com
>To: Firebird-Java@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [Firebird-Java] Re: JDBC
>Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 18:34:17 -0000
>
>Hi,
>
> > Can anyone tell me if JDBC for Firebird will allow cursor positioning
> > yet?
>
>No, because server does not support this.
>
> > If not, how do you navigate the data?
>
>You don't. SQL is about manipulating a data sets. If we take the idea
>to the extreem, ORDER BY should be disabled, because it breaks the
>concept. :) SQL client executes a query and fetches the set of data
>back to the client. There you can do with data everything you like:
>scroll, sort, etc.
>
>This is not convenient for some applications and scrollable cursors
>would be of great help. Unfortunatelly server does not provide this
>functionality. Delphi users have libraries that emulate such
>functionality on the client side, but nobody implemented this for JDBC
>yet.
>
>Best regards,
>Roman Rokytskyy
>

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