SQLGetEnvAttr Function

SQLGetEnvAttr Function

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Conformance: Version Introduced: ODBC 3.0 Standards Compliance: ISO 92

Summary: SQLGetEnvAttr returns the current setting of an environment attribute.

SQLRETURN SQLGetEnvAttr(
     SQLHENV     EnvironmentHandle,
     SQLINTEGER     Attribute,
     SQLPOINTER     ValuePtr,
     SQLINTEGER     BufferLength,
     SQLINTEGER *     StringLengthPtr);

Arguments

EnvironmentHandle: [Input] Environment handle.

Attribute: [Input] Attribute to retrieve.

ValuePtr: [Output] Pointer to a buffer in which to return the current value of the attribute specified by Attribute.

BufferLength: [Input] If ValuePtr points to a character string, this argument should be the length of *ValuePtr. If *ValuePtr is an integer, BufferLength is ignored. If *ValuePtr is a Unicode string (when calling SQLGetEnvAttrW), the BufferLength argument must be an even number. If the attribute value is not a character string, BufferLength is unused.

StringLengthPtr: [Output] A pointer to a buffer in which to return the total number of bytes (excluding the null-termination character) available to return in *ValuePtr. If ValuePtr is a null pointer, no length is returned. If the attribute value is a character string and the number of bytes available to return is greater than or equal to BufferLength, the data in *ValuePtr is truncated to BufferLength minus the length of a null-termination character and is null-terminated by the driver.

Returns

SQL_SUCCESS, SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO, SQL_NO_DATA, SQL_ERROR, or SQL_INVALID_HANDLE.

Diagnostics

When SQLGetEnvAttr returns SQL_ERROR or SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO, an associated SQLSTATE value can be obtained by calling SQLGetDiagRec with a HandleType of SQL_HANDLE_ENV and a Handle of EnvironmentHandle. The following table lists the SQLSTATE values commonly returned by SQLGetEnvAttr and explains each one in the context of this function; the notation "(DM)" precedes the descriptions of SQLSTATEs returned by the Driver Manager. The return code associated with each SQLSTATE value is SQL_ERROR, unless noted otherwise.

SQLSTATE	Error	Description
01000	General warning	Driver-specific informational message. (Function returns SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO.)
01004	String data, right truncated	The data returned in *ValuePtr was truncated to be BufferLength minus the null-termination character. The length of the untruncated string value is returned in *StringLengthPtr. (Function returns SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO.)
HY000	General error	An error occurred for which there was no specific SQLSTATE and for which no implementation-specific SQLSTATE was defined. The error message returned by SQLGetDiagRec in the *MessageText buffer describes the error and its cause.
HY001	Memory allocation error	The driver was unable to allocate memory required to support execution or completion of the function.
HY013	Memory management error	The function call could not be processed because the underlying memory objects could not be accessed, possibly because of low memory conditions.
HY092	Invalid attribute/option identifier	The value specified for the argument Attribute was not valid for the version of ODBC supported by the driver.
HYC00	Optional feature not implemented	The value specified for the argument Attribute was a valid ODBC environment attribute for the version of ODBC supported by the driver but was not supported by the driver.
IM001	Driver does not support this function	(DM) The driver corresponding to the EnvironmentHandle does not support the function.

Comments

For a list of attributes, see SQLSetEnvAttr. There are no driver-specific environment attributes. If Attribute specifies an attribute that returns a string, ValuePtr must be a pointer to a buffer in which to return the string. The maximum length of the string, including the null-termination byte, will be BufferLength bytes.

SQLGetEnvAttr can be called at any time between the allocation and the freeing of an environment handle. All environment attributes successfully set by the application for the environment persist until SQLFreeHandle is called on the EnvironmentHandle with a HandleType of SQL_HANDLE_ENV. More than one environment handle can be allocated simultaneously in ODBC 3.x. An environment attribute on one environment is not affected when another environment has been allocated.

Note
The SQL_ATTR_OUTPUT_NTS environment attribute is supported by standards-compliant applications. When SQLGetEnvAttr is called, the ODBC 3.x Driver Manager always returns SQL_TRUE for this attribute. SQL_ATTR_OUTPUT_NTS can be set to SQL_TRUE only by a call to SQLSetEnvAttr.

Related Functions

For information about	See
Returning the setting of a connection attribute	SQLGetConnectAttr Function
Returning the setting of a statement attribute	SQLGetStmtAttr Function
Setting a connection attribute	SQLSetConnectAttr Function
Setting an environment attribute	SQLSetEnvAttr Function
Setting a statement attribute	SQLSetStmtAttr Function

Concepts

ODBC Header Files

Other Resources

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