[Bast-commits] r7466 - DBIx-Class/0.08/trunk/lib/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI

[frew at dev.catalyst.perl.org]

Author: frew
Date: 2009-09-01 18:27:36 +0000 (Tue, 01 Sep 2009)
New Revision: 7466

Modified:
   DBIx-Class/0.08/trunk/lib/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI/MSSQL.pm
Log:
pod describing strife with MSSQL

Modified: DBIx-Class/0.08/trunk/lib/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI/MSSQL.pm
===================================================================
--- DBIx-Class/0.08/trunk/lib/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI/MSSQL.pm	2009-09-01 15:35:31 UTC (rev 7465)
+++ DBIx-Class/0.08/trunk/lib/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI/MSSQL.pm	2009-09-01 18:27:36 UTC (rev 7466)
@@ -198,6 +198,8 @@
 
 =head1 IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
 
+=head2 IDENTITY information
+
 Microsoft SQL Server supports three methods of retrieving the IDENTITY
 value for inserted row: IDENT_CURRENT, @@IDENTITY, and SCOPE_IDENTITY().
 SCOPE_IDENTITY is used here because it is the safest.  However, it must
@@ -216,6 +218,14 @@
 inserts into another table with an identity will give erroneous results on
 recent versions of SQL Server.
 
+=head2 bulk_insert
+
+Be aware that we have tried to make things as simple as possible for our users.
+For MSSQL that means that when a user tries to do a populate/bulk_insert which
+includes an autoincrementing column, we will try to tell the database to allow
+the insertion of the autoinc column.  But the user must have the db_ddladmin
+role membership, otherwise you will get a fairly opaque error message.
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
 See L<DBIx::Class/CONTRIBUTORS>.