Question re Sun's jdbc-odbc bridge

Hi,
Can anybody tell me whether this bridge (in the latest SE, 1.4.0) does things like updatable recordsets... i.e. jdbc 2.0 functionality? I keep getting an ArrayOutOfBounds exceptoin...
Thanks,
Mike

ArrayOutOfBounds exceptoin... Which suggests that either there is a bug in the driver or in the way you are using it. And that will have nothing to do with whether it supports a particular feature or not.

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// Author: Karl Moss
// Date: February, 1996
// Copyright: 1990-1996 INTERSOLV, Inc.
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Thank you for your reply StuDerby!
Actually the above script was before, as you suggested, leaving the ResultSetTeype default. This did not work...
I am getting gray hair with SPSS - in terms of connectivity and "integratebility" none of their solutions offered is sufficient from my point of view.
Variable definitions can only be read by the slow API, data can only be read by Python or Microsoft Products... and if you want to combine both you are in big trouble. I can only assume that this is a company strategy to sell their Dimensions Platform to companies versus having companies developping their applications according to business needs.
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