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ODBC Trace Log

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TheBigA (Programmer)

6 Oct 10 14:57

I have an issue where I am using a vendor products out-of-the-box configuration tool to connect to an Oracle 11g database. There are two options for connecting; use tnsnames reference directly or use an ODBC. Because I am having issues I decided to use an ODBC data source and turn on tracing. It produced some good information, but I am trying to get a better understanding of the information in the Microsoft ODBC Trace log (SQL.LOG by default). Is there anything available that explains the information contained in that trace file? Specifically there is a line that looks like it is showing the Oracle schema starting with "PTR" - what is this telling me? Below is a snippet from the trace log. Can anyone tell me what this means? Or is there some good reference material on interpreting the trace file?

Thank you!

ProjectBuilder  21e8-6d8    EXIT  SQLGetData  with return code 0 (SQL_SUCCESS)
        HSTMT               09EC1A90
        UWORD                        2
        SWORD                       -8 <SQL_C_WCHAR>
        PTR                 0x09D3B008 [       8] "APPS"
        SQLLEN                  4094
        SQLLEN *            0x0012D898 (8)

ProjectBuilder  21e8-6d8    ENTER SQLGetData
        HSTMT               09EC1A90
        UWORD                        3
        SWORD                       -8 <SQL_C_WCHAR>
        PTR                 0x09D3B008
        SQLLEN                  4094
        SQLLEN *            0x0012D898

ProjectBuilder  21e8-6d8    EXIT  SQLGetData  with return code 0 (SQL_SUCCESS)
        HSTMT               09EC1A90
        UWORD                        3
        SWORD                       -8 <SQL_C_WCHAR>
        PTR                 0x09D3B008 [      68] "AP_WEB_WRAPPER_PKG.SETUPCLIENTINFO"
        SQLLEN                  4094
        SQLLEN *            0x0012D898 (68)

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