On 17.05.2013 17:10, Christoph Zwerschke wrote: > Am 17.05.2013 17:01, schrieb Vernon D. Cole: >> What other options should be considered? > > Another option would be to get rid of the parameter completely, and silently > accept both styles, > whatever is used in the sql command passed to the execute method.
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