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StatementHandle

[Input] Statement handle

Option

[Input] One of the following options:

SQL_ CLOSE: Closes the cursor associated with StatementHandle (if one was defined) and discards all pending results. The application can reopen this cursor later by executing a SELECT statement again with the same or different parameter values. If no cursor is open, this option has no effect for the application. SQLCloseCursor can also be called to close a cursor. For more information, see Closing the Cursor.

SQL_DROP: This option is deprecated. A call to SQLFreeStmt with an Option of SQL_DROP is mapped in the Driver Manager to SQLFreeHandle.

SQL_UNBIND: Sets the SQL_DESC_COUNT field of the ARD to 0, releasing all column buffers bound by SQLBindCol for the given StatementHandle. This does not unbind the bookmark column; to do that, the SQL_DESC_DATA_PTR field of the ARD for the bookmark column is set to NULL. Notice that if this operation is performed on an explicitly allocated descriptor that is shared by more than one statement, the operation will affect the bindings of all statements that share the descriptor. For more information, see Overview of Retrieving Results (Basic).

SQL_RESET_PARAMS: Sets the SQL_DESC_COUNT field of the APD to 0, releasing all parameter buffers set by SQLBindParameter for the given StatementHandle. If this operation is performed on an explicitly allocated descriptor that is shared by more than one statement, this operation will affect the bindings of all the statements that share the descriptor. For more information, see Binding Parameters.

SQL_SUCCESS, SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO, SQL_ERROR, or SQL_INVALID_HANDLE.

When SQLFreeStmt returns SQL_ERROR or SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO, an associated SQLSTATE value can be obtained by calling SQLGetDiagRec with a HandleType of SQL_HANDLE_STMT and a Handle of StatementHandle. The following table lists the SQLSTATE values typically returned by SQLFreeStmt 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.

Calling SQLFreeStmt with the SQL_CLOSE option is equivalent to calling SQLCloseCursor, except that SQLFreeStmt with SQL_CLOSE does not affect the application if no cursor is open on the statement. If no cursor is open, a call to SQLCloseCursor returns SQLSTATE 24000 (Invalid cursor state).

An application should not use a statement handle after it has been freed; the Driver Manager does not check the validity of a handle in a function call.

It is a good programming practice to free handles. However, for simplicity, the following sample does not include code that frees allocated handles. For an example of how to free handles, see SQLFreeHandle Function.

// SQLFreeStmt.cpp
// compile with: user32.lib odbc32.lib
#include <windows.h>
#include <sqlext.h>

int main() {
   // declare and initialize the environment, connection, statement handles
   SQLHENV henv = NULL;   // Environment   
   SQLHDBC hdbc = NULL;   // Connection handle
   SQLHSTMT hstmt = NULL;   // Statement handle

   SQLRETURN retCode;
   HWND desktopHandle = GetDesktopWindow();   // desktop's window handle
   SQLCHAR connStrbuffer[1024];
   SQLSMALLINT connStrBufferLen;
   retCode = SQLAllocHandle(SQL_HANDLE_ENV, SQL_NULL_HANDLE, &henv);
   retCode = SQLSetEnvAttr(henv, SQL_ATTR_ODBC_VERSION, (void*)SQL_OV_ODBC3, -1);
   retCode = SQLAllocHandle(SQL_HANDLE_DBC, henv, &hdbc);
   retCode = SQLSetConnectAttr(hdbc, SQL_LOGIN_TIMEOUT, (SQLPOINTER)10, 0);
   retCode = SQLDriverConnect(hdbc, desktopHandle, (SQLCHAR *)"Driver={SQL Server}", SQL_NTS, connStrbuffer, 1024 + 1, &connStrBufferLen, SQL_DRIVER_PROMPT);
   retCode = SQLAllocHandle(SQL_HANDLE_STMT, hdbc, &hstmt);

   retCode = SQLFreeStmt(hstmt, SQL_CLOSE);
   retCode = SQLFreeStmt(hstmt, SQL_UNBIND);
   retCode = SQLFreeStmt(hstmt, SQL_RESET_PARAMS);
}

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