Re: JDBC: getMoreResults() versus rs.next() & autoGeneratedKeys

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Date:
Sat, 21 Dec 2013 15:04:40 -0500
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On 12/21/2013 1:59 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:

On 12/20/2013 08:08 PM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 12/20/2013 9:07 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:

I have to write code to execute runtime-specified SQL-statements,
and there are two things that I wasn't able to understand from reading
the javadocs:

1.)
When would one call .getMoreResults() on a statement instead of just
another rs.next() on the first one (obtained from stmnt.getResultSet())?
Are these equivalent, or is there really a concept of multiple
ResultSets,
each of which has its own independent set of rows?


Yes.

Some databases support stored procedures returning multiple
result sets.

[ SNIP ]

This might just be me, but I dislike the entire idea. I am aware of the
possibility, I've never used it. To me a stored proc (SP) should adhere
to the same principles as functions or procedures - you try to simplify
your components (and your application) by not having them do multiple
things (side-effects, overly complex return values etc).


I can follow you.

But I have seen SP's return 20+ result sets.

I guess that the argument is to save round trips.

Arne

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