[DB-SIG] Positioned Update/Delete

[adustman@comstar.net]

On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Dr. Dieter Maurer wrote:

> How should positioned update/delete be best used with the DB-API:
> 
>  1. cursor.execute("update set ... where CURRENT")
>  2. cursor.execute("update set ... where CURRENT of SELF")
>  3. cursor.execute("update set ... where CURRENT of %s" % str(cursor))
>  4. cursor.execute("update set ... where CURRENT of ?",(cursor,))

4a. cursor.execute("update TABLE set CURRENT = ?", (current,))

Assuming you are using an SQL-89 or so database; the API doesn't really
specify the query language syntax. 

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