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Why does SQLRowCount/odbc_num_rows and $sth->rows return -1?

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Last Reviewed:
4th July 2017
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odbc_num_rows is the PHP wrapper for the ODBC API SQLRowCount. $sth->rows is the Perl DBI method of obtaining the results from the ODBC API SQLRowCount.

Most ODBC drivers only return a meaningful number from SQLRowCount when you execute row changing SQL e.g. updates, deletes, inserts. For selects most ODBC drivers return -1.

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