SynDB.pas

/// abstract database direct access classes
// - this unit is a part of the freeware Synopse framework,
// licensed under a MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license; version 1.18
unit SynDB;

{
    This file is part of Synopse framework.

    Synopse framework. Copyright (c) Arnaud Bouchez
      Synopse Informatique - https://synopse.info

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  - Alexander (volax)
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{$I Synopse.inc} // define HASINLINE CPU32 CPU64 OWNNORMTOUPPER

interface

/// if defined, a TQuery class will be defined to emulate the BDE TQuery class
{$define EMULATES_TQUERY}

/// if defined, a set of classes will be defined to implement remote access
{$define WITH_PROXY}

{$ifdef LVCL}
  {$undef EMULATES_TQUERY}
{$endif}

uses
  {$ifdef MSWINDOWS}
  Windows,
  {$else}
  {$ifdef KYLIX3}
  LibC,
  Types,
  SynKylix,
  {$endif}
  {$ifdef FPC}
  SynFPCLinux,
  {$endif}
  {$endif}
  {$ifdef FPC}
  dynlibs,
  {$endif}
  {$ifdef ISDELPHIXE2}System.SysUtils,{$else}SysUtils,{$endif}
  Classes,
  {$ifndef LVCL}
  Contnrs,
  {$endif}
  {$ifndef DELPHI5OROLDER}
  Variants,
  {$endif}
  SynCommons,
  SynTable, // for TSynTableStatement
  SynLog;


{ -------------- TSQLDB* generic classes and types }

type
  // NOTE: TSQLDBFieldType is defined in SynCommons.pas (used by TSQLVar)

  /// an array of RawUTF8, for each existing column type
  // - used e.g. by SQLCreate method
  // - ftUnknown maps int32 field (e.g. boolean), ftNull maps RawUTF8 index # field,
  // ftUTF8 maps RawUTF8 blob field, other types map their default kind
  // - for UTF-8 text, ftUTF8 will define the BLOB field, whereas ftNull will
  // expect to be formated with an expected field length in ColumnAttr
  // - the RowID definition will expect the ORM to create an unique identifier,
  // and will use the ftInt64 type definition for this
  // and send it with the INSERT statement (some databases, like Oracle, do not
  // support standard's IDENTITY attribute) - see http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms
  TSQLDBFieldTypeDefinition = array[TSQLDBFieldType] of RawUTF8;

  /// the diverse type of bound parameters during a statement execution
  // - will be paramIn by default, which is the case 90% of time
  // - could be set to paramOut or paramInOut if must be refereshed after
  // execution (for calling a stored procedure expecting such parameters)
  TSQLDBParamInOutType =
    (paramIn, paramOut, paramInOut);

  /// used to define a field/column layout in a table schema
  // - for TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLCreate to describe the new table
  // - for TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetFields to retrieve the table layout
  TSQLDBColumnDefine = packed record
    /// the Column name
    ColumnName: RawUTF8;
    /// the Column type, as retrieved from the database provider
    // - returned as plain text by GetFields method, to be used e.g. by
    // TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetFieldDefinitions method
    // - SQLCreate will check for this value to override the default type
    ColumnTypeNative: RawUTF8;
    /// the Column default width (in chars or bytes) of ftUTF8 or ftBlob
    // - can be set to value <0 for CLOB or BLOB column type, i.e. for
    // a value without any maximal length
    ColumnLength: PtrInt;
    /// the Column data precision
    // - used e.g. for numerical values
    ColumnPrecision: PtrInt;
    /// the Column data scale
    // - used e.g. for numerical values
    // - may be -1 if the metadata SQL statement returned NULL
    ColumnScale: PtrInt;
    /// the Column type, as recognized by our SynDB classes
    // - should not be ftUnknown nor ftNull
    ColumnType: TSQLDBFieldType;
    /// specify if column is indexed
    ColumnIndexed: boolean;
  end;

  /// used to define the column layout of a table schema
  // - e.g. for TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetFields
  TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray = array of TSQLDBColumnDefine;

  /// used to describe extended Index definition of a table schema
  TSQLDBIndexDefine = packed record
    /// name of the index
    IndexName: RawUTF8;
    /// description of the index type
    // - for MS SQL possible values are:
    // $ HEAP | CLUSTERED | NONCLUSTERED | XML |SPATIAL
    //  - for Oracle:
    // $ NORMAL | BITMAP | FUNCTION-BASED NORMAL | FUNCTION-BASED BITMAP | DOMAIN
    // see @http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14237/statviews_1069.htm
    TypeDesc: RawUTF8;
    /// Expression for the subset of rows included in the filtered index
    // - only set for MS SQL - not retrieved for other DB types yet
    Filter: RawUTF8;
    /// comma separated list of indexed column names, in order of their definition
    KeyColumns: RawUTF8;
    /// comma separaded list of a nonkey column added to the index by using the CREATE INDEX INCLUDE clause
    // - only set for MS SQL - not retrieved for other DB types yet
    IncludedColumns: RawUTF8;
    /// if Index is unique
    IsUnique: boolean;
    /// if Index is part of a PRIMARY KEY constraint
    // - only set for MS SQL - not retrieved for other DB types yet
    IsPrimaryKey: boolean;
    /// if Index is part of a UNIQUE constraint
    // - only set for MS SQL - not retrieved for other DB types yet
    IsUniqueConstraint: boolean;
  end;

  /// used to describe extended Index definition of a table schema
  // - e.g. for TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetIndexes
  TSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray = array of TSQLDBIndexDefine;

  /// used to define a parameter/column layout in a stored procedure schema
  // - for TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetProcedureParameters to retrieve the stored procedure parameters
  // - can be extended according to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms711701(v=vs.85).aspx
  TSQLDBProcColumnDefine = packed record
    /// the Column name
    ColumnName: RawUTF8;
    /// the Column type, as retrieved from the database provider
    // - used e.g. by TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetProcedureParameters method
    ColumnTypeNative: RawUTF8;
    /// the Column default width (in chars or bytes) of ftUTF8 or ftBlob
    // - can be set to value <0 for CLOB or BLOB column type, i.e. for
    // a value without any maximal length
    ColumnLength: PtrInt;
    /// the Column data precision
    // - used e.g. for numerical values
    ColumnPrecision: PtrInt;
    /// the Column data scale
    // - used e.g. for numerical values
    // - may be -1 if the metadata SQL statement returned NULL
    ColumnScale: PtrInt;
    /// the Column type, as recognized by our SynDB classes
    // - should not be ftUnknown nor ftNull
    ColumnType: TSQLDBFieldType;
    /// defines the procedure column as a parameter or a result set column
    ColumnParamType: TSQLDBParamInOutType;
  end;

  /// used to define the parameter/column layout of a stored procedure schema
  // - e.g. for TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetProcedureParameters
  TSQLDBProcColumnDefineDynArray = array of TSQLDBProcColumnDefine;

  /// possible column retrieval patterns
  // - used by TSQLDBColumnProperty.ColumnValueState
  TSQLDBStatementGetCol = (colNone, colNull, colWrongType, colDataFilled, colDataTruncated);

  /// used to define a field/column layout
  // - for TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLCreate to describe the table
  // - for T*Statement.Execute/Column*() methods to map the IRowSet content
  TSQLDBColumnProperty = packed record
    /// the Column name
    ColumnName: RawUTF8;
    /// a general purpose integer value
    // - for SQLCreate: default width (in WideChars or Bytes) of ftUTF8 or ftBlob;
    // if set to 0, a CLOB or BLOB column type will be created - note that
    // UTF-8 encoding is expected when calculating the maximum column byte size
    // for the CREATE TABLE statement (e.g. for Oracle 1333=4000/3 is used)
    // - for TOleDBStatement: the offset of this column in the IRowSet data,
    // starting with a DBSTATUSENUM, the data, then its length (for inlined
    // sftUTF8 and sftBlob only)
    // - for TSQLDBOracleStatement: contains an offset to this column values
    // inside fRowBuffer[] internal buffer
    // - for TSQLDBDatasetStatement: maps TField pointer value
    // - for TSQLDBPostgresStatement: contains the column type OID
    ColumnAttr: PtrUInt;
    /// the Column type, used for storage
    // - for SQLCreate: should not be ftUnknown nor ftNull
    // - for TOleDBStatement: should not be ftUnknown
    // - for SynDBOracle: never ftUnknown, may be ftNull (for SQLT_RSET)
    ColumnType: TSQLDBFieldType;
    /// set if the Column must exists (i.e. should not be null)
    ColumnNonNullable: boolean;
    /// set if the Column shall have unique value (add the corresponding constraint)
    ColumnUnique: boolean;
    /// set if the Column data is inlined within the main rows buffer
    // - for TOleDBStatement: set if column was NOT defined as DBTYPE_BYREF
    // which is the most common case, when column data < 4 KB
    // - for TSQLDBOracleStatement: FALSE if column is an array of
    // POCILobLocator (SQLT_CLOB/SQLT_BLOB) or POCIStmt (SQLT_RSET)
    // - for TSQLDBODBCStatement: FALSE if bigger than 255 WideChar (ftUTF8) or
    // 255 bytes (ftBlob)
    ColumnValueInlined: boolean;
    /// expected column data size
    // - for TSQLDBOracleStatement/TOleDBStatement/TODBCStatement: used to store
    // one column size (in bytes)
    ColumnValueDBSize: cardinal;
    /// optional character set encoding for ftUTF8 columns
    // - for SQLT_STR/SQLT_CLOB (SynDBOracle): equals to the OCI char set
    ColumnValueDBCharSet: integer;
    /// internal DB column data type
    // - for TSQLDBOracleStatement: used to store the DefineByPos() TypeCode,
    // can be SQLT_STR/SQLT_CLOB, SQLT_FLT, SQLT_INT, SQLT_DAT, SQLT_BLOB,
    // SQLT_BIN and SQLT_RSET
    // - for TSQLDBODBCStatement: used to store the DataType as returned
    // by ODBC.DescribeColW() - use private ODBC_TYPE_TO[ColumnType] to
    // retrieve the marshalled type used during column retrieval
    // - for TSQLDBFirebirdStatement: used to store XSQLVAR.sqltype
    // - for TSQLDBDatasetStatement: indicates the TField class type, i.e.
    // 0=TField, 1=TLargeIntField, 2=TWideStringField
    ColumnValueDBType: smallint;
    /// driver-specific encoding information
    // - for SynDBOracle: used to store the ftUTF8 column encoding, i.e. for
    // SQLT_CLOB, equals either to SQLCS_NCHAR or SQLCS_IMPLICIT
    ColumnValueDBForm: byte;
    /// may contain the current status of the column value
    // - for SynDBODBC: state of the latest SQLGetData() call
    ColumnDataState: TSQLDBStatementGetCol;
    /// may contain the current column size for not FIXEDLENGTH_SQLDBFIELDTYPE
    // - for SynDBODBC: size (in bytes) in corresponding fColData[]
    // - TSQLDBProxyStatement: the actual maximum column size
    ColumnDataSize: integer;
  end;

  PSQLDBColumnProperty = ^TSQLDBColumnProperty;

  /// used to define a table/field column layout
  TSQLDBColumnPropertyDynArray = array of TSQLDBColumnProperty;

  /// used to define how a column to be created
  TSQLDBColumnCreate = record
    /// the data type
    // - here, ftUnknown is used for Int32 values, ftInt64 for Int64 values,
    // as expected by TSQLDBFieldTypeDefinition
    DBType: TSQLDBFieldType;
    /// the column name
    Name: RawUTF8;
    /// the width, e.g. for VARCHAR() types
    Width: cardinal;
    /// if the column should be unique
    Unique: boolean;
    /// if the column should be non null
    NonNullable: boolean;
    /// if the column is the ID primary key
    PrimaryKey: boolean;
  end;
  /// used to define how a table is to be created
  TSQLDBColumnCreateDynArray = array of TSQLDBColumnCreate;

  /// identify a CRUD mode of a statement
  // - in addition to CRUD states, cPostgreBulkArray would identify if the ORM
  // should generate unnested/any bound array statements - currently only
  // supported by SynDBPostgres for bulk insert/update/delete
  TSQLDBStatementCRUD = (
    cCreate, cRead, cUpdate, cDelete, cPostgreBulkArray);

  /// identify the CRUD modes of a statement
  // - used e.g. for batch send abilities of a DB engine
  TSQLDBStatementCRUDs = set of TSQLDBStatementCRUD;

  /// the known database definitions
  // - will be used e.g. for TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLFieldCreate(), or
  // for OleDB/ODBC/ZDBC tuning according to the connected database engine
  TSQLDBDefinition = (dUnknown, dDefault, dOracle, dMSSQL, dJet, dMySQL,
    dSQLite, dFirebird, dNexusDB, dPostgreSQL, dDB2, dInformix);

  /// set of the available database definitions
  TSQLDBDefinitions = set of TSQLDBDefinition;

  {$M+}
  TSQLDBStatement = class;
  {$M-}

{$ifndef LVCL}
{$ifndef DELPHI5OROLDER}
  /// a custom variant type used to have direct access to a result row content
  // - use ISQLDBRows.RowData method to retrieve such a Variant
  TSQLDBRowVariantType = class(TSynInvokeableVariantType)
  protected
    function IntGet(var Dest: TVarData; const Instance: TVarData; Name: PAnsiChar; NameLen: PtrInt): boolean; override;
  end;
{$endif}
{$endif}

  /// generic interface to access a SQL query result rows
  // - not all TSQLDBStatement methods are available, but only those to retrieve
  // data from a statement result: the purpose of this interface is to make
  // easy access to result rows, not provide all available features - therefore
  // you only have access to the Step() and Column*() methods
  ISQLDBRows = interface
    ['{11291095-9C15-4984-9118-974F1926DB9F}']
    /// after a prepared statement has been prepared returning a ISQLDBRows
    // interface, this method must be called one or more times to evaluate it
    // - you shall call this method before calling any Column*() methods
    // - return TRUE on success, with data ready to be retrieved by Column*()
    // - return FALSE if no more row is available (e.g. if the SQL statement
    // is not a SELECT but an UPDATE or INSERT command)
    // - access the first or next row of data from the SQL Statement result:
    // if SeekFirst is TRUE, will put the cursor on the first row of results,
    // otherwise, it will fetch one row of data, to be called within a loop
    // - should raise an Exception on any error
    // - typical use may be:
    // ! var Customer: Variant;
    // ! begin
    // !   with Props.Execute( 'select * from Sales.Customer where AccountNumber like ?',
    // !       ['AW000001%'],@Customer) do begin
    // !     while Step do //  loop through all matching data rows
    // !       assert(Copy(Customer.AccountNumber,1,8)='AW000001');
    // !     ReleaseRows;
    // !   end;
    // ! end;
    function Step(SeekFirst: boolean=false): boolean;
    /// release cursor memory and resources once Step loop is finished
    // - this method call is optional, but is better be used if the ISQLDBRows
    // statement from taken from cache, and returned a lot of content which
    // may still be in client (and server) memory
    // - will also free all temporary memory used for optional logging
    procedure ReleaseRows;

    /// the column/field count of the current Row
    function ColumnCount: integer;
    /// the Column name of the current Row
    // - Columns numeration (i.e. Col value) starts with 0
    // - it's up to the implementation to ensure than all column names are unique
    function ColumnName(Col: integer): RawUTF8;
    /// returns the Column index of a given Column name
    // - Columns numeration (i.e. Col value) starts with 0
    // - returns -1 if the Column name is not found (via case insensitive search)
    function ColumnIndex(const aColumnName: RawUTF8): integer;
    /// the Column type of the current Row
    // - FieldSize can be set to store the size in chars of a ftUTF8 column
    // (0 means BLOB kind of TEXT column)
    function ColumnType(Col: integer; FieldSize: PInteger=nil): TSQLDBFieldType;
    /// returns TRUE if the column contains NULL
    function ColumnNull(Col: integer): boolean;
    /// return a Column integer value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnInt(Col: integer): Int64; overload;
    /// return a Column floating point value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnDouble(Col: integer): double; overload;
    /// return a Column floating point value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnDateTime(Col: integer): TDateTime; overload;
    /// return a column date and time value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnTimestamp(Col: integer): TTimeLog; overload;
    /// return a Column currency value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnCurrency(Col: integer): currency; overload;
    /// return a Column UTF-8 encoded text value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnUTF8(Col: integer): RawUTF8; overload;
    /// return a Column text value as generic VCL string of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnString(Col: integer): string; overload;
    /// return a Column as a blob value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnBlob(Col: integer): RawByteString; overload;
    /// return a Column as a blob value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnBlobBytes(Col: integer): TBytes; overload;
    /// read a blob Column into the Stream parameter
    procedure ColumnBlobToStream(Col: integer; Stream: TStream); overload;
    /// write a blob Column into the Stream parameter
    // - expected to be used with 'SELECT .. FOR UPDATE' locking statements
    procedure ColumnBlobFromStream(Col: integer; Stream: TStream); overload;
    /// return a Column as a TSQLVar value, first Col is 0
    // - the specified Temp variable will be used for temporary storage of
    // svtUTF8/svtBlob values
    procedure ColumnToSQLVar(Col: Integer; var Value: TSQLVar;
      var Temp: RawByteString);
    {$ifndef LVCL}
    /// return a Column as a variant
    // - a ftUTF8 TEXT content will be mapped into a generic WideString variant
    // for pre-Unicode version of Delphi, and a generic UnicodeString (=string)
    // since Delphi 2009: you may not loose any data during charset conversion
    // - a ftBlob BLOB content will be mapped into a TBlobData AnsiString variant
    function ColumnVariant(Col: integer): Variant; overload;
    /// return a Column as a variant, first Col is 0
    // - this default implementation will call Column*() method above
    // - a ftUTF8 TEXT content will be mapped into a generic WideString variant
    // for pre-Unicode version of Delphi, and a generic UnicodeString (=string)
    // since Delphi 2009: you may not loose any data during charset conversion
    // - a ftBlob BLOB content will be mapped into a TBlobData AnsiString variant
    function ColumnToVariant(Col: integer; var Value: Variant): TSQLDBFieldType; overload;
    {$endif}
    /// return a special CURSOR Column content as a SynDB result set
    // - Cursors are not handled internally by mORMot, but some databases (e.g.
    // Oracle) usually use such structures to get data from stored procedures
    // - such columns are mapped as ftNull internally - so this method is the only
    // one giving access to the data rows
    // - see also BoundCursor() if you want to access a CURSOR out parameter
    function ColumnCursor(Col: integer): ISQLDBRows; overload;

    /// return a Column integer value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnInt(const ColName: RawUTF8): Int64; overload;
    /// return a Column floating point value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnDouble(const ColName: RawUTF8): double; overload;
    /// return a Column floating point value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnDateTime(const ColName: RawUTF8): TDateTime; overload;
    /// return a column date and time value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnTimestamp(const ColName: RawUTF8): TTimeLog; overload;
    /// return a Column currency value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnCurrency(const ColName: RawUTF8): currency; overload;
    /// return a Column UTF-8 encoded text value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnUTF8(const ColName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8; overload;
    /// return a Column text value as generic VCL string of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnString(const ColName: RawUTF8): string; overload;
    /// return a Column as a blob value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnBlob(const ColName: RawUTF8): RawByteString; overload;
    /// return a Column as a blob value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnBlobBytes(const ColName: RawUTF8): TBytes; overload;
    /// read a blob Column into the Stream parameter
    procedure ColumnBlobToStream(const ColName: RawUTF8; Stream: TStream); overload;
    /// write a blob Column into the Stream parameter
    procedure ColumnBlobFromStream(const ColName: RawUTF8; Stream: TStream); overload;
    {$ifndef LVCL}
    /// return a Column as a variant, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnVariant(const ColName: RawUTF8): Variant; overload;
    /// return a Column as a variant, from a supplied column name
    // - since a property getter can't be an overloaded method, we define one
    // for the Column[] property
    function GetColumnVariant(const ColName: RawUTF8): Variant;
    /// return a special CURSOR Column content as a SynDB result set
    // - Cursors are not handled internally by mORMot, but some databases (e.g.
    // Oracle) usually use such structures to get data from strored procedures
    // - such columns are mapped as ftNull internally - so this method is the only
    // one giving access to the data rows
    function ColumnCursor(const ColName: RawUTF8): ISQLDBRows; overload;
    /// return a Column as a variant
    // - this default property can be used to write simple code like this:
    // ! procedure WriteFamily(const aName: RawUTF8);
    // ! var I: ISQLDBRows;
    // ! begin
    // !   I := MyConnProps.Execute('select * from table where name=?',[aName]);
    // !   while I.Step do
    // !     writeln(I['FirstName'],' ',DateToStr(I['BirthDate']));
    // !   I.ReleaseRows;
    // ! end;
    // - of course, using a variant and a column name will be a bit slower than
    // direct access via the Column*() dedicated methods, but resulting code
    // is fast in practice
    property Column[const ColName: RawUTF8]: Variant read GetColumnVariant; default;
    {$ifndef DELPHI5OROLDER}
    /// create a TSQLDBRowVariantType able to access any field content via late binding
    // - i.e. you can use Data.Name to access the 'Name' column of the current row
    // - this Variant will point to the corresponding TSQLDBStatement instance,
    // so it's not necessary to retrieve its value for each row; but once the
    // associated ISQLDBRows instance is released, you won't be able to access
    // its data - use RowDocVariant instead
    // - typical use is:
    // ! var Row: Variant;
    // ! (...)
    // !  with MyConnProps.Execute('select * from table where name=?',[aName]) do begin
    // !    Row := RowData;
    // !    while Step do
    // !      writeln(Row.FirstName,Row.BirthDate);
    // !    ReleaseRows;
    // !  end;
    function RowData: Variant;
    /// create a TDocVariant custom variant containing all columns values
    // - will create a "fast" TDocVariant object instance with all fields
    procedure RowDocVariant(out aDocument: variant;
      aOptions: TDocVariantOptions=JSON_OPTIONS_FAST);
    {$endif DELPHI5OROLDER}
    {$endif LVCL}
    /// return the associated statement instance
    function Instance: TSQLDBStatement;
    // return all rows content as a JSON string
    // - JSON data is retrieved with UTF-8 encoding
    // - if Expanded is true, JSON data is an array of objects, for direct use
    // with any Ajax or .NET client:
    // & [ {"col1":val11,"col2":"val12"},{"col1":val21,... ]
    // - if Expanded is false, JSON data is serialized (used in TSQLTableJSON)
    // & { "FieldCount":1,"Values":["col1","col2",val11,"val12",val21,..] }
    // - BLOB field value is saved as Base64, in the '"\uFFF0base64encodedbinary"'
    // format and contains true BLOB data
    // - if ReturnedRowCount points to an integer variable, it will be filled with
    // the number of row data returned (excluding field names)
    // - similar to corresponding TSQLRequest.Execute method in SynSQLite3 unit
    function FetchAllAsJSON(Expanded: boolean; ReturnedRowCount: PPtrInt=nil): RawUTF8;
    // append all rows content as a JSON stream
    // - JSON data is added to the supplied TStream, with UTF-8 encoding
    // - if Expanded is true, JSON data is an array of objects, for direct use
    // with any Ajax or .NET client:
    // & [ {"col1":val11,"col2":"val12"},{"col1":val21,... ]
    // - if Expanded is false, JSON data is serialized (used in TSQLTableJSON)
    // & { "FieldCount":1,"Values":["col1","col2",val11,"val12",val21,..] }
    // - BLOB field value is saved as Base64, in the '"\uFFF0base64encodedbinary"'
    // format and contains true BLOB data
    // - similar to corresponding TSQLRequest.Execute method in SynSQLite3 unit
    // - returns the number of row data returned (excluding field names)
    function FetchAllToJSON(JSON: TStream; Expanded: boolean): PtrInt;
    /// append all rows content as binary stream
    // - will save the column types and name, then every data row in optimized
    // binary format (faster and smaller than JSON)
    // - you can specify a LIMIT for the data extent (default 0 meaning all data)
    // - generates the format expected by TSQLDBProxyStatement
    function FetchAllToBinary(Dest: TStream; MaxRowCount: cardinal=0;
      DataRowPosition: PCardinalDynArray=nil): cardinal;
  end;

  /// generic interface to bind to prepared SQL query
  // - inherits from ISQLDBRows, so gives access to the result columns data
  // - not all TSQLDBStatement methods are available, but only those to bind
  // parameters and retrieve data after execution
  // - reference counting mechanism of this interface will feature statement
  // cache (if available) for NewThreadSafeStatementPrepared() or PrepareInlined()
  ISQLDBStatement = interface(ISQLDBRows)
  ['{EC27B81C-BD57-47D4-9711-ACFA27B583D7}']
    /// bind a NULL value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - some providers (e.g. OleDB during MULTI INSERT statements) expect the
    // proper column type to be set in BoundType, even for NULL values
    procedure BindNull(Param: Integer; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn;
      BoundType: TSQLDBFieldType=ftNull);
    /// bind an integer value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure Bind(Param: Integer; Value: Int64;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload;
    /// bind a double value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure Bind(Param: Integer; Value: double;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload;
    /// bind a TDateTime value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindDateTime(Param: Integer; Value: TDateTime;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload;
    /// bind a currency value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindCurrency(Param: Integer; Value: currency;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload;
    /// bind a UTF-8 encoded string to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindTextU(Param: Integer; const Value: RawUTF8;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload;
    /// bind a UTF-8 encoded buffer text (#0 ended) to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindTextP(Param: Integer; Value: PUTF8Char;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload;
    /// bind a UTF-8 encoded string to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindTextS(Param: Integer; const Value: string;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload;
    /// bind a UTF-8 encoded string to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindTextW(Param: Integer; const Value: WideString;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload;
    /// bind a Blob buffer to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindBlob(Param: Integer; Data: pointer; Size: integer;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload;
    /// bind a Blob buffer to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindBlob(Param: Integer; const Data: RawByteString;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload;
    /// bind a Variant value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - will call all virtual Bind*() methods from the Data type
    // - if DataIsBlob is TRUE, will call BindBlob(RawByteString(Data)) instead
    // of BindTextW(WideString(Variant)) - used e.g. by TQuery.AsBlob/AsBytes
    procedure BindVariant(Param: Integer; const Data: Variant; DataIsBlob: boolean;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn);
    /// bind one TSQLVar value
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure Bind(Param: Integer; const Data: TSQLVar;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload;
    /// bind one RawUTF8 encoded value
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - the value should match the BindArray() format, i.e. be stored as in SQL
    // (i.e. number, 'quoted string', 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss', null)
    procedure Bind(Param: Integer; ParamType: TSQLDBFieldType; const Value: RawUTF8;
      ValueAlreadyUnquoted: boolean; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload;
    /// bind an array of const values
    // - parameters marked as ? should be specified as method parameter in Params[]
    // - BLOB parameters can be bound with this method, when set after encoding
    // via BinToBase64WithMagic() call
    // - TDateTime parameters can be bound with this method, when encoded via
    // a DateToSQL() or DateTimeToSQL() call
    procedure Bind(const Params: array of const;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload;
    /// bind an array of fields from an existing SQL statement
    // - can be used e.g. after ColumnsToSQLInsert() method call for fast data
    // conversion between tables
    procedure BindFromRows(const Fields: TSQLDBFieldTypeDynArray;
      Rows: TSQLDBStatement);
    /// bind a special CURSOR parameter to be returned as a SynDB result set
    // - Cursors are not handled internally by mORMot, but some databases (e.g.
    // Oracle) usually use such structures to get data from strored procedures
    // - such parameters are mapped as ftUnknown
    // - use BoundCursor() method to retrieve the corresponding ISQLDBRows after
    // execution of the statement
    procedure BindCursor(Param: integer);
    /// return a special CURSOR parameter content as a SynDB result set
    // - this method is not about a column, but a parameter defined with
    // BindCursor() before method execution
    // - Cursors are not handled internally by mORMot, but some databases (e.g.
    // Oracle) usually use such structures to get data from strored procedures
    // - this method allow direct access to the data rows after execution
    function BoundCursor(Param: Integer): ISQLDBRows;

    /// bind an array of values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - values are stored as in SQL (i.e. number, 'quoted string',
    // 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss', null)
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    procedure BindArray(Param: Integer; ParamType: TSQLDBFieldType;
      const Values: TRawUTF8DynArray; ValuesCount: integer); overload;
    /// bind an array of integer values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    procedure BindArray(Param: Integer; const Values: array of Int64); overload;
    /// bind an array of double values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    procedure BindArray(Param: Integer; const Values: array of double); overload;
    /// bind an array of TDateTime values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - values are stored as in SQL (i.e. 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss')
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    procedure BindArrayDateTime(Param: Integer; const Values: array of TDateTime);
    /// bind an array of currency values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    procedure BindArrayCurrency(Param: Integer; const Values: array of currency);
    /// bind an array of RawUTF8 values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - values are stored as in SQL (i.e. 'quoted string')
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    procedure BindArray(Param: Integer; const Values: array of RawUTF8); overload;

    {$ifndef LVCL}
    /// retrieve the parameter content, after SQL execution
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - to be used e.g. with stored procedures:
    // ! query :=  'BEGIN TEST_PKG.DUMMY(?, ?, ?, ?, ?); END;';
    // ! stmt := Props.NewThreadSafeStatementPrepared(query, false);
    // ! stmt.Bind(1, in1, paramIn);
    // ! stmt.BindTextU(2, in2, paramIn);
    // ! stmt.BindTextU(3, in3, paramIn);
    // ! stmt.BindTextS(4, '', paramOut); //  to be retrieved with out1: string
    // ! stmt.Bind(5, 0, paramOut);       //  to be retrieved with out2: integer
    // ! stmt.ExecutePrepared;
    // ! stmt.ParamToVariant(4, out1, true);
    // ! stmt.ParamToVariant(5, out2, true);
    // - the parameter should have been bound with IO=paramOut or IO=paramInOut
    // if CheckIsOutParameter is TRUE
    function ParamToVariant(Param: Integer; var Value: Variant;
      CheckIsOutParameter: boolean=true): TSQLDBFieldType;
    {$endif}

    /// execute a prepared SQL statement
    // - parameters marked as ? should have been already bound with Bind*() functions
    // - should raise an Exception on any error
    // - after execution, you can access any returned data via ISQLDBRows methods
    procedure ExecutePrepared;
    // execute a prepared SQL statement and return all rows content as a JSON string
    // - JSON data is retrieved with UTF-8 encoding
    // - if Expanded is true, JSON data is an array of objects, for direct use
    // with any Ajax or .NET client:
    // & [ {"col1":val11,"col2":"val12"},{"col1":val21,... ]
    // - if Expanded is false, JSON data is serialized (used in TSQLTableJSON)
    // & { "FieldCount":1,"Values":["col1","col2",val11,"val12",val21,..] }
    // - BLOB field value is saved as Base64, in the '"\uFFF0base64encodedbinary"'
    // format and contains true BLOB data
    procedure ExecutePreparedAndFetchAllAsJSON(Expanded: boolean; out JSON: RawUTF8);

    function GetForceBlobAsNull: boolean;
    procedure SetForceBlobAsNull(value: boolean);
    /// if set, any BLOB field won't be retrieved, and forced to be null
    // - this may be used to speed up fetching the results for SQL requests
    // with * statements
    property ForceBlobAsNull: boolean read GetForceBlobAsNull write SetForceBlobAsNull;
    function GetForceDateWithMS: boolean;
    procedure SetForceDateWithMS(value: boolean);
    /// if set, any ftDate field will contain the milliseconds information
    // when serialized into ISO-8601 text
    // - this setting is private to each statement, since may vary depending
    // on data definition (e.g. ORM TDateTime/TDateTimeMS)
    property ForceDateWithMS: boolean read GetForceDateWithMS write SetForceDateWithMS;
    /// gets a number of updates made by latest executed statement
    function UpdateCount: Integer;
  end;

{$ifdef WITH_PROXY}
  /// proxy commands implemented by TSQLDBProxyConnectionProperties.Process()
  // - method signature expect "const Input" and "var Output" arguments
  // - Input is not used for cConnect, cDisconnect, cGetForeignKeys,
  // cTryStartTransaction, cCommit, cRollback and cServerTimestamp
  // - Input is the TSQLDBProxyConnectionProperties instance for cInitialize
  // - Input is the RawUTF8 table name for most cGet* metadata commands
  // - Input is the SQL statement and associated bound parameters for cExecute,
  // cExecuteToBinary, cExecuteToJSON, and cExecuteToExpandedJSON, encoded as
  // TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommandExecute record
  // - Output is not used for cConnect, cDisconnect, cCommit, cRollback and cExecute
  // - Output is TSQLDBDefinition (i.e. DBMS type) for cInitialize
  // - Output is TTimeLog for cServerTimestamp
  // - Output is boolean for cTryStartTransaction
  // - Output is TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray for cGetFields
  // - Output is TSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray for cGetIndexes
  // - Output is TSynNameValue (fForeignKeys) for cGetForeignKeys
  // - Output is TRawUTF8DynArray for cGetTableNames
  // - Output is RawByteString result data for cExecuteToBinary
  // - Output is UpdateCount: integer text for cExecute
  // - Output is RawUTF8 result data for cExecuteToJSON and cExecuteToExpandedJSON
  // - calls could be declared as such:
  // ! Process(cGetToken,?,result: Int64);
  // ! Process(cGetDBMS,User#1Hash: RawUTF8,fDBMS: TSQLDBDefinition);
  // ! Process(cConnect,?,?);
  // ! Process(cDisconnect,?,?);
  // ! Process(cTryStartTransaction,?,started: boolean);
  // ! Process(cCommit,?,?);
  // ! Process(cRollback,?,?);
  // ! Process(cServerTimestamp,?,result: TTimeLog);
  // ! Process(cGetFields,aTableName: RawUTF8,Fields: TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray);
  // ! Process(cGetIndexes,aTableName: RawUTF8,Indexes: TSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray);
  // ! Process(cGetTableNames,?,Tables: TRawUTF8DynArray);
  // ! Process(cGetForeignKeys,?,fForeignKeys: TSynNameValue);
  // ! Process(cExecute,Request: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommandExecute,UpdateCount: integer);
  // ! Process(cExecuteToBinary,Request: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommandExecute,Data: RawByteString);
  // ! Process(cExecuteToJSON,Request: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommandExecute,JSON: RawUTF8);
  // ! Process(cExecuteToExpandedJSON,Request: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommandExecute,JSON: RawUTF8);
  // - cExceptionRaised is a pseudo-command, used only for sending an exception
  // to the client in case of execution problem on the server side
  TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommand = (
    cGetToken,cGetDBMS,
    cConnect, cDisconnect, cTryStartTransaction, cCommit, cRollback,
    cServerTimestamp,
    cGetFields, cGetIndexes, cGetTableNames, cGetForeignKeys,
    cExecute, cExecuteToBinary, cExecuteToJSON, cExecuteToExpandedJSON,
    cQuit, cExceptionRaised);

{$endif WITH_PROXY}

  {$M+} { published properties to be logged as JSON }
  TSQLDBConnection = class;
  TSQLDBConnectionProperties = class;
  {$M-}

  /// where the LIMIT clause should be inserted for a given SQL syntax
  // - used by TSQLDBDefinitionLimitClause and SQLLimitClause() method
  TSQLDBDefinitionLimitPosition = (posNone, posWhere, posSelect, posAfter, posOuter);

  /// defines the LIMIT clause to be inserted for a given SQL syntax
  // - used by TSQLDBDefinitionLimitClause and SQLLimitClause() method
  TSQLDBDefinitionLimitClause = record
    Position: TSQLDBDefinitionLimitPosition;
    InsertFmt: PUTF8Char;
  end;

  /// possible events notified to TOnSQLDBProcess callback method
  // - event handler is specified by TSQLDBConnectionProperties.OnProcess or
  // TSQLDBConnection.OnProcess properties
  // - speConnected / speDisconnected will notify TSQLDBConnection.Connect
  // and TSQLDBConnection.Disconnect calls
  // - speNonActive / speActive will be used to notify external DB blocking
  // access, so can be used e.g. to change the mouse cursor shape (this trigger
  // is re-entrant, i.e. it will be executed only once in case of nested calls)
  // - speReconnected will be called if TSQLDBConnection did successfully
  // recover its database connection (on error, TQuery will call
  // speConnectionLost): this event will be called by TSQLDBConnection.Connect
  // after a regular speConnected notification
  // - speConnectionLost will be called by TQuery in case of broken connection,
  // and if Disconnect/Reconnect did not restore it as expected (i.e. speReconnected)
  // - speStartTransaction / speCommit / speRollback will notify the
  // corresponding TSQLDBConnection.StartTransaction, TSQLDBConnection.Commit
  // and TSQLDBConnection.Rollback methods
  TOnSQLDBProcessEvent = (
    speConnected, speDisconnected,
    speNonActive, speActive,
    speConnectionLost, speReconnected,
    speStartTransaction, speCommit, speRollback);

  /// event handler called during all external DB process
  // - event handler is specified by TSQLDBConnectionProperties.OnProcess or
  // TSQLDBConnection.OnProperties properties
  TOnSQLDBProcess = procedure(Sender: TSQLDBConnection; Event: TOnSQLDBProcessEvent) of object;

  /// event handler called when the low-level driver send some warning information
  // - errors will trigger Exceptions, but sometimes the database driver returns
  // some non critical information, which is logged and may be intercepted using
  // the TSQLDBConnectionProperties.OnStatementInfo property
  // - may be used e.g. to track ORA-28001 or ORA-28002 about account expire
  // - is currently implemented by SynDBOracle, SynDBODBC and SynOleDB units
  TOnSQLDBInfo = procedure(Sender: TSQLDBStatement; const Msg: RawUTF8) of object;

  /// actions implemented by TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SharedTransaction()
  TSQLDBSharedTransactionAction = (transBegin,
    transCommitWithoutException, transCommitWithException, transRollback);

  /// defines a callback signature able to handle multiple INSERT
  // - may execute e.g. for 2 fields and 3 data rows on a database engine
  // implementing INSERT with multiple VALUES (like MySQL, PostgreSQL, NexusDB,
  // MSSQL or SQlite3), as implemented by
  // TSQLDBConnectionProperties.MultipleValuesInsert() :
  // $ INSERT INTO TableName(FieldNames[0],FieldNames[1]) VALUES
  // $   (FieldValues[0][0],FieldValues[1][0]),
  // $   (FieldValues[0][1],FieldValues[1][1]),
  // $   (FieldValues[0][2],FieldValues[1][2]);
  // - for other kind of DB which do not support multi values INSERT, may
  // execute a dedicated driver command, like MSSQL "bulk insert" or Firebird
  // "execute block"
  TOnBatchInsert = procedure(Props: TSQLDBConnectionProperties;
    const TableName: RawUTF8; const FieldNames: TRawUTF8DynArray;
    const FieldTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypeArray; RowCount: integer;
    const FieldValues: TRawUTF8DynArrayDynArray) of object;

  /// specify the class of TSQLDBConnectionProperties
  // - sometimes used to create connection properties instances, from a set
  // of available classes (see e.g. SynDBExplorer or sample 16)
  TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesClass = class of TSQLDBConnectionProperties;

  /// abstract class used to set Database-related properties
  // - handle e.g. the Database server location and connection parameters (like
  // UserID and password)
  // - should also provide some Database-specific generic SQL statement creation
  // (e.g. how to create a Table), to be used e.g. by the mORMot layer
  // - this class level will handle a single "main connection" - you may inherit
  // from TSQLDBConnectionThreadSafe to maintain one connection per thread
  TSQLDBConnectionProperties = class
  protected
    fServerName: RawUTF8;
    fDatabaseName: RawUTF8;
    fPassWord: RawUTF8;
    fUserID: RawUTF8;
    fForcedSchemaName: RawUTF8;
    fMainConnection: TSQLDBConnection;
    fBatchSendingAbilities: TSQLDBStatementCRUDs;
    fBatchMaxSentAtOnce: integer;
    fLoggedSQLMaxSize: integer;
    fOnBatchInsert: TOnBatchInsert;
    fDBMS: TSQLDBDefinition;
    fUseCache, fStoreVoidStringAsNull, fLogSQLStatementOnException,
    fRollbackOnDisconnect, fReconnectAfterConnectionError,
    fFilterTableViewSchemaName: boolean;
    fDateTimeFirstChar: AnsiChar;
    {$ifndef UNICODE}
    fVariantWideString: boolean;
    {$endif}
    fStatementMaxMemory: Int64;
    fForeignKeys: TSynNameValue;
    fSQLCreateField: TSQLDBFieldTypeDefinition;
    fSQLCreateFieldMax: cardinal;
    fSQLGetServerTimestamp: RawUTF8;
    fEngineName: RawUTF8;
    fOnProcess: TOnSQLDBProcess;
    fOnStatementInfo: TOnSQLDBInfo;
    fStatementCacheReplicates: integer;
    fConnectionTimeOutTicks: Int64;
    fSharedTransactions: array of record
      SessionID: cardinal;
      RefCount: integer;
      Connection: TSQLDBConnection;
    end;
    fExecuteWhenConnected: TRawUTF8DynArray;
    procedure SetConnectionTimeOutMinutes(minutes: cardinal);
    function GetConnectionTimeOutMinutes: cardinal;
    // this default implementation just returns the fDBMS value or dDefault
    // (never returns dUnknwown)
    function GetDBMS: TSQLDBDefinition; virtual;
    function GetDBMSName: RawUTF8; virtual;
    function GetForeignKeysData: RawByteString;
    procedure SetForeignKeysData(const Value: RawByteString);
    function FieldsFromList(const aFields: TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray; aExcludeTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypes): RawUTF8;
    function GetMainConnection: TSQLDBConnection; virtual;
    function GetDatabaseNameSafe: RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// any overriden TSQLDBConnectionProperties class should call it in the
    // initialization section of its implementation unit to be recognized
    class procedure RegisterClassNameForDefinition;
    /// will be called at the end of constructor
    // - this default implementation will do nothing
    procedure SetInternalProperties; virtual;
    /// Assign schema name to owner from ForceSchemaName or UserID or Database name
    procedure SetSchemaNameToOwner(out Owner: RawUTF8); virtual;
    /// SQL statement to get all field/column names for a specified Table
    // - used by GetFieldDefinitions public method
    // - should return a SQL "SELECT" statement with the field names as first
    // column, a textual field type as 2nd column, then field length, then
    // numeric precision and scale as 3rd, 4th and 5th columns, and the index
    // count in 6th column
    // - this default implementation just returns nothing
    // - if this method is overridden, the ColumnTypeNativeToDB() method should
    // also be overridden in order to allow conversion from native column
    // type into the corresponding TSQLDBFieldType
    function SQLGetField(const aTableName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// SQL statement to get advanced information about all indexes for a Table
    // - should return a SQL "SELECT" statement with the index names as first
    function SQLGetIndex(const aTableName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// SQL statement to get all parameter for a specified Stored Procedure
    // - used by GetProcedureParameters public method
    // - should return a SQL "SELECT" statement with the parameter names as first
    // column, a textual field type as 2nd column, then parameter length as 3rd, then
    // parameter direction as 4th
    // - this default implementation just returns nothing
    // - if this method is overridden, the ColumnTypeNativeToDB() method should
    // also be overridden in order to allow conversion from native column
    // type into the corresponding TSQLDBFieldType
    function SQLGetParameter(const aProcName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// SQL statement to get all stored procedure names for current connection
    // - used by GetProcedureNames public method
    // - should return a SQL "SELECT" statement with the procedure names as unique column
    // - this default implementation just returns nothing
    // - if this method is overridden, the ColumnTypeNativeToDB() method should
    // also be overridden in order to allow conversion from native column
    // type into the corresponding TSQLDBFieldType
    function SQLGetProcedure: RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// SQL statement to get all table names
    // - used by GetTableNames public method
    // - should return a SQL "SELECT" statement with the table names as
    // first column (any other columns will be ignored)
    // - this default implementation just returns nothing
    function SQLGetTableNames: RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// SQL statement to get all view names
    // - used by GetViewNames public method
    // - should return a SQL "SELECT" statement with the view names as
    // first column (any other columns will be ignored)
    // - this default implementation just returns nothing
    function SQLGetViewNames: RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// should initialize fForeignKeys content with all foreign keys of this
    // database
    // - used by GetForeignKey method
    procedure GetForeignKeys; virtual; abstract;
    /// will use fSQLCreateField[Max] to create the SQL column definition
    // - this default virtual implementation will handle properly all supported
    // database engines, assuming aField.ColumnType as in TSQLDBFieldTypeDefinition
    // - if the field is a primary key, aAddPrimaryKey may be modified to contain
    // some text to be appended at the end of the ALTER/CREATE TABLE statement
    function SQLFieldCreate(const aField: TSQLDBColumnCreate;
      var aAddPrimaryKey: RawUTF8): RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// wrapper around GetIndexes() + set Fields[].ColumnIndexed in consequence
    // - used by some overridden versions of GetFields() method
    procedure GetIndexesAndSetFieldsColumnIndexed(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
      var Fields: TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray);
    /// check if the exception or its error message is about DB connection error
    // - will be used by TSQLDBConnection.LastErrorWasAboutConnection method
    // - default method will check for the 'conne' sub-string in the message text
    // - should be overridden depending on the error message returned by the DB
    function ExceptionIsAboutConnection(aClass: ExceptClass; const aMessage: RawUTF8): boolean; virtual;
    /// generic method able to implement OnBatchInsert() with parameters
    // - for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL2008, NexusDB or SQlite3, will execute
    // (with parameters) the extended standard syntax:
    // $ INSERT INTO TableName(FieldNames[0],FieldNames[1]) VALUES
    // $   (FieldValues[0][0],FieldValues[1][0]),
    // $   (FieldValues[0][1],FieldValues[1][1]),
    // $   (FieldValues[0][2],FieldValues[1][2]);
    // - for Firebird, will run the corresponding EXECUTE BLOCK() statement
    // with parameters - but Firebird sounds slower than without any parameter
    // (as tested with ZDBC/ZEOS or UniDAC)
    // - for Oracle, will run (with parameters for values):
    // $ INSERT ALL
    // $  INTO TableName(FieldNames[0],FieldNames[1]) VALUES (?,?)
    // $  INTO TableName(FieldNames[0],FieldNames[1]) VALUES (?,?)
    // $  INTO TableName(FieldNames[0],FieldNames[1]) VALUES (?,?)
    // $ SELECT 1 FROM DUAL;
    procedure MultipleValuesInsert(Props: TSQLDBConnectionProperties;
      const TableName: RawUTF8; const FieldNames: TRawUTF8DynArray;
      const FieldTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypeArray; RowCount: integer;
      const FieldValues: TRawUTF8DynArrayDynArray);
    /// Firebird-dedicated method able to implement OnBatchInsert()
    // - will run an EXECUTE BLOCK statement without any parameters, but
    // including inlined values - sounds to be faster on ZEOS/ZDBC!
    procedure MultipleValuesInsertFirebird(Props: TSQLDBConnectionProperties;
      const TableName: RawUTF8; const FieldNames: TRawUTF8DynArray;
      const FieldTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypeArray; RowCount: integer;
      const FieldValues: TRawUTF8DynArrayDynArray);
  public
    /// initialize the properties
    // - children may optionaly handle the fact that no UserID or Password
    // is supplied here, by displaying a corresponding Dialog box
    constructor Create(const aServerName, aDatabaseName, aUserID, aPassWord: RawUTF8); virtual;
    /// release related memory, and close MainConnection
    destructor Destroy; override;
    /// save the properties into a persistent storage object
    // - you can use TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesDescription.CreateFrom()
    // later on to instantiate the proper TSQLDBConnectionProperties class
    // - current Definition.Key value will be used for the password encryption
    procedure DefinitionTo(Definition: TSynConnectionDefinition); virtual;
    /// save the properties into a JSON file
    // - you could use TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesDescription.CreateFromJSON()
    // later on to instantiate the proper TSQLDBConnectionProperties class
    // - you can specify a custom Key, if the default is not enough for you
    function DefinitionToJSON(Key: cardinal=0): RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// save the properties into a JSON file
    // - you could use TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesDescription.CreateFromFile()
    // later on to instantiate the proper TSQLDBConnectionProperties class
    // - you can specify a custom Key, if the default is not enough for you
    procedure DefinitionToFile(const aJSONFile: TFileName; Key: cardinal=0);
    /// create a new TSQLDBConnectionProperties instance from the stored values
    class function CreateFrom(aDefinition: TSynConnectionDefinition): TSQLDBConnectionProperties; virtual;
    /// create a new TSQLDBConnectionProperties instance from a JSON content
    // - as previously serialized with TSQLDBConnectionProperties.DefinitionToJSON
    // - you can specify a custom Key, if the default is not safe enough for you
    class function CreateFromJSON(const aJSONDefinition: RawUTF8;
      aKey: cardinal=0): TSQLDBConnectionProperties; virtual;
    /// create a new TSQLDBConnectionProperties instance from a JSON file
    // - as previously serialized with TSQLDBConnectionProperties.DefinitionToFile
    // - you can specify a custom Key, if the default is not safe enough for you
    class function CreateFromFile(const aJSONFile: TFileName;
      aKey: cardinal=0): TSQLDBConnectionProperties;
    /// retrieve the registered class from the aDefinition.Kind string
    class function ClassFrom(aDefinition: TSynConnectionDefinition): TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesClass;

    /// create a new connection
    // - call this method if the shared MainConnection is not enough (e.g. for
    // multi-thread access)
    // - the caller is responsible of freeing this instance
    function NewConnection: TSQLDBConnection; virtual;
    /// get a thread-safe connection
    // - this default implementation will return the MainConnection shared
    // instance, so the provider should be thread-safe by itself
    // - TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafe will implement a per-thread
    // connection pool, via an internal TSQLDBConnection pool, per thread
    // if necessary (e.g. for OleDB, which expect one TOleDBConnection instance
    // per thread)
    function ThreadSafeConnection: TSQLDBConnection; virtual;
    /// release all existing connections
    // - can be called e.g. after a DB connection problem, to purge the
    // connection pool, and allow automatic reconnection
    // - is called automatically if ConnectionTimeOutMinutes property is set
    // - warning: no connection shall still be used on the background (e.g. in
    // multi-threaded applications), or some unexpected border effects may occur
    procedure ClearConnectionPool; virtual;
    /// specify a maximum period of inactivity after which all connections will
    // be flushed and recreated, to avoid potential broken connections issues
    // - in practice, recreating the connections after a while is safe and
    // won't slow done the process - on the contrary, it may help reducing the
    // consumpted resources, and stabilize long running n-Tier servers
    // - ThreadSafeConnection method will check for the last activity on this
    // TSQLDBConnectionProperties instance, then call ClearConnectionPool
    // to release all active connections if the idle time elapsed was too long
    // - warning: no connection shall still be used on the background (e.g. in
    // multi-threaded applications), or some unexpected issues may occur - for
    // instance, ensure that your mORMot ORM server runs all its statements in
    // blocking mode for both read and write:
    // ! aServer.AcquireExecutionMode[execORMGet] := am***;
    // ! aServer.AcquireExecutionMode[execORMWrite] := am***;
    // here, safe blocking am*** modes are any mode but amUnlocked, i.e. either
    // amLocked, amBackgroundThread or amMainThread
    property ConnectionTimeOutMinutes: cardinal
      read GetConnectionTimeOutMinutes write SetConnectionTimeOutMinutes;
    /// intercept connection errors at statement preparation and try to reconnect
    // - i.e. detect TSQLDBConnection.LastErrorWasAboutConnection in
    // TSQLDBConnection.NewStatementPrepared
    // - warning: no connection shall still be used on the background (e.g. in
    // multi-threaded applications), or some unexpected issues may occur - see
    // AcquireExecutionMode[] recommendations in ConnectionTimeOutMinutes
    property ReconnectAfterConnectionError: boolean
      read fReconnectAfterConnectionError write fReconnectAfterConnectionError;
    /// create a new thread-safe statement
    // - this method will call ThreadSafeConnection.NewStatement
    function NewThreadSafeStatement: TSQLDBStatement;
    /// create a new thread-safe statement from an internal cache (if any)
    // - will call ThreadSafeConnection.NewStatementPrepared
    // - this method should return a prepared statement instance on success
    // - on error, returns nil and you can check Connnection.LastErrorMessage /
    // Connection.LastErrorException to retrieve corresponding error information
    // (if RaiseExceptionOnError is left to default FALSE value, otherwise, it will
    // raise an exception)
    function NewThreadSafeStatementPrepared(const aSQL: RawUTF8;
       ExpectResults: Boolean; RaiseExceptionOnError: Boolean=false): ISQLDBStatement; overload;
    /// create a new thread-safe statement from an internal cache (if any)
    // - this method will call the overloaded NewThreadSafeStatementPrepared method
    // - here Args[] array does not refer to bound parameters, but to values
    // to be changed within SQLFormat in place of '%' characters (this method
    // will call FormatUTF8() internaly); parameters will be bound directly
    // on the returned TSQLDBStatement instance
    // - this method should return a prepared statement instance on success
    // - on error, returns nil and you can check Connnection.LastErrorMessage /
    // Connection.LastErrorException to retrieve correspnding error information
    // (if RaiseExceptionOnError is left to default FALSE value, otherwise, it will
    // raise an exception)
    function NewThreadSafeStatementPrepared(const SQLFormat: RawUTF8;
      const Args: array of const; ExpectResults: Boolean;
      RaiseExceptionOnError: Boolean=false): ISQLDBStatement; overload;
    /// create, prepare and bound inlined parameters to a thread-safe statement
    // - this implementation will call the NewThreadSafeStatement virtual method,
    // then bound inlined parameters as :(1234): and return the resulting statement
    // - raise an exception on error
    // - consider using ExecuteInlined() for direct execution
    function PrepareInlined(const aSQL: RawUTF8; ExpectResults: Boolean): ISQLDBStatement; overload;
    /// create, prepare and bound inlined parameters to a thread-safe statement
    // - overloaded method using FormatUTF8() and inlined parameters
    // - consider using ExecuteInlined() for direct execution
    function PrepareInlined(const SQLFormat: RawUTF8; const Args: array of const;
      ExpectResults: Boolean): ISQLDBStatement; overload;
    /// execute a SQL query, returning a statement interface instance to retrieve
    // the result rows corresponding to the supplied SELECT statement
    // - will call NewThreadSafeStatement method to retrieve a thread-safe
    // statement instance, then run the corresponding Execute() method
    // - raise an exception on error
    // - returns an ISQLDBRows to access any resulting rows (if ExpectResults is
    // TRUE), and provide basic garbage collection, as such:
    // ! procedure WriteFamily(const aName: RawUTF8);
    // ! var I: ISQLDBRows;
    // ! begin
    // !   I := MyConnProps.Execute('select * from table where name=?',[aName]);
    // !   while I.Step do
    // !     writeln(I['FirstName'],' ',DateToStr(I['BirthDate']));
    // !   I.ReleaseRows;
    // ! end;
    // - if RowsVariant is set, you can use it to row column access via late
    // binding, as such:
    // ! procedure WriteFamily(const aName: RawUTF8);
    // ! var R: Variant;
    // ! begin
    // !   with MyConnProps.Execute('select * from table where name=?',[aName],@R) do begin
    // !     while Step do
    // !       writeln(R.FirstName,' ',DateToStr(R.BirthDate));
    // !     ReleaseRows;
    // !   end;
    // ! end;
    // - you can any BLOB field to be returned as null with the ForceBlobAsNull
    // optional parameter
    function Execute(const aSQL: RawUTF8; const Params: array of const
      {$ifndef LVCL}{$ifndef DELPHI5OROLDER}; RowsVariant: PVariant=nil{$endif}{$endif};
      ForceBlobAsNull: boolean=false): ISQLDBRows;
    /// execute a SQL query, without returning any rows
    // - can be used to launch INSERT, DELETE or UPDATE statement, e.g.
    // - will call NewThreadSafeStatement method to retrieve a thread-safe
    // statement instance, then run the corresponding Execute() method
    // - return the number of modified rows, i.e. the ISQLDBStatement.UpdateCount
    // value (or 0 if the DB driver does not supply this value)
    function ExecuteNoResult(const aSQL: RawUTF8; const Params: array of const): integer;
    /// create, prepare, bound inlined parameters and execute a thread-safe statement
    // - this implementation will call the NewThreadSafeStatement virtual method,
    // then bound inlined parameters as :(1234): and call its Execute method
    // - raise an exception on error
    function ExecuteInlined(const aSQL: RawUTF8; ExpectResults: Boolean): ISQLDBRows; overload;
    /// create, prepare, bound inlined parameters and execute a thread-safe statement
    // - overloaded method using FormatUTF8() and inlined parameters
    function ExecuteInlined(const SQLFormat: RawUTF8; const Args: array of const;
      ExpectResults: Boolean): ISQLDBRows; overload;
    /// handle a transaction process common to all associated connections
    // - could be used to share a single transaction among several connections,
    // or to run nested transactions even on DB engines which do not allow them
    // - will use a simple reference counting mechanism to allow nested
    // transactions, identified by a session identifier
    // - will fail if the same connection is not used for the whole process,
    // which would induce a potentially incorrect behavior
    // - returns the connection corresponding to the session, nil on error
    function SharedTransaction(SessionID: cardinal;
      action: TSQLDBSharedTransactionAction): TSQLDBConnection; virtual;

    /// convert a textual column data type, as retrieved e.g. from SQLGetField,
    // into our internal primitive types
    // - default implementation will always return ftUTF8
    function ColumnTypeNativeToDB(const aNativeType: RawUTF8; aScale: integer): TSQLDBFieldType; virtual;
    /// returns the SQL statement used to create a Table
    // - should return the SQL "CREATE" statement needed to create a table with
    // the specified field/column names and types
    // - if aAddID is TRUE, "ID Int64 PRIMARY KEY" column is added as first,
    // and will expect the ORM to create an unique RowID value sent at INSERT
    // (could use "select max(ID) from table" to retrieve the last value) -
    // note that 'ID' is used instead of 'RowID' since it fails on Oracle e.g.
    // - this default implementation will use internal fSQLCreateField and
    // fSQLCreateFieldMax protected values, which contains by default the
    // ANSI SQL Data Types and maximum 1000 inlined WideChars: inherited classes
    // may change the default fSQLCreateField* content or override this method
    function SQLCreate(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
      const aFields: TSQLDBColumnCreateDynArray; aAddID: boolean): RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// returns the SQL statement used to add a column to a Table
    // - should return the SQL "ALTER TABLE" statement needed to add a column to
    // an existing table
    // - this default implementation will use internal fSQLCreateField and
    // fSQLCreateFieldMax protected values, which contains by default the
    // ANSI SQL Data Types and maximum 1000 inlined WideChars: inherited classes
    // may change the default fSQLCreateField* content or override this method
    function SQLAddColumn(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
      const aField: TSQLDBColumnCreate): RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// returns the SQL statement used to add an index to a Table
    // - should return the SQL "CREATE INDEX" statement needed to add an index
    // to the specified column names of an existing table
    // - index will expect UNIQUE values in the specified columns, if Unique
    // parameter is set to true
    // - this default implementation will return the standard SQL statement, i.e.
    // 'CREATE [UNIQUE] INDEX index_name ON table_name (column_name[s])'
    function SQLAddIndex(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
      const aFieldNames: array of RawUTF8; aUnique: boolean;
      aDescending: boolean=false;
      const aIndexName: RawUTF8=''): RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// used to compute a SELECT statement for the given fields
    // - should return the SQL "SELECT ... FROM ..." statement to retrieve
    // the specified column names of an existing table
    // - by default, all columns specified in aFields[] will be available:
    // it will return "SELECT * FROM TableName"
    // - but if you specify a value in aExcludeTypes, it will compute the
    // matching column names to ignore those kind of content (e.g. [stBlob] to
    // save time and space)
    function SQLSelectAll(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
      const aFields: TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray; aExcludeTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypes): RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// SQL statement to create the corresponding database
    // - this default implementation will only handle dFirebird by now
    function SQLCreateDatabase(const aDatabaseName: RawUTF8;
      aDefaultPageSize: integer=0): RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// convert an ISO-8601 encoded time and date into a date appropriate to
    // be pasted in the SQL request
    // - this default implementation will return the quoted ISO-8601 value, i.e.
    // 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS' (as expected by Microsoft SQL server e.g.)
    // - returns  to_date('....','YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')  for Oracle
    function SQLIso8601ToDate(const Iso8601: RawUTF8): RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// convert a TDateTime into a ISO-8601 encoded time and date, as expected
    // by the database provider
    // - e.g. SQLite3, DB2 and PostgreSQL will use non-standard ' ' instead of 'T'
    function SQLDateToIso8601Quoted(DateTime: TDateTime): RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// split a table name to its OWNER.TABLE full name (if applying)
    // - will use ForcedSchemaName property (if applying), or the OWNER. already
    // available within the supplied table name
    procedure SQLSplitTableName(const aTableName: RawUTF8; out Owner, Table: RawUTF8); virtual;
    /// split a procedure name to its OWNER.PACKAGE.PROCEDURE full name (if applying)
    // - will use ForcedSchemaName property (if applying), or the OWNER. already
    // available within the supplied table name
    procedure SQLSplitProcedureName(const aProcName: RawUTF8; out Owner, Package, ProcName: RawUTF8); virtual;
    /// return the fully qualified SQL table name
    // - will use ForcedSchemaName property (if applying), or return aTableName
    // - you can override this method to force the expected format
    function SQLFullTableName(const aTableName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8; virtual;
    /// return a SQL table name with quotes if necessary
    // - can be used e.g. with SELECT statements
    // - you can override this method to force the expected format
    function SQLTableName(const aTableName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8; virtual;

    /// retrieve the column/field layout of a specified table
    // - this default implementation will use protected SQLGetField virtual
    // method to retrieve the field names and properties
    // - used e.g. by GetFieldDefinitions
    // - will call ColumnTypeNativeToDB protected virtual method to guess the
    // each mORMot TSQLDBFieldType
    procedure GetFields(const aTableName: RawUTF8; out Fields: TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray); virtual;
    /// retrieve the advanced indexed information of a specified Table
    //  - this default implementation will use protected SQLGetIndex virtual
    // method to retrieve the index names and properties
    // - currently only MS SQL and Oracle are supported
    procedure GetIndexes(const aTableName: RawUTF8; out Indexes: TSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray); virtual;
    /// get all field/column definition for a specified Table as text
    // - call the GetFields method and retrieve the column field name and
    // type as 'Name [Type Length Precision Scale]'
    // - if WithForeignKeys is set, will add external foreign keys as '% tablename'
    procedure GetFieldDefinitions(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
      out Fields: TRawUTF8DynArray; WithForeignKeys: boolean);
    /// get one field/column definition as text
    // - return column type as 'Name [Type Length Precision Scale]'
    class function GetFieldDefinition(const Column: TSQLDBColumnDefine): RawUTF8;
    /// get one field/column definition as text, targeting a TSQLRecord
    // published property
    // - return e.g. property type information as:
    // ! 'Name: RawUTF8 read fName write fName index 20;';
    class function GetFieldORMDefinition(const Column: TSQLDBColumnDefine): RawUTF8;
    /// check if the supplied text word is not a keyword for a given database engine
    class function IsSQLKeyword(aDB: TSQLDBDefinition; aWord: RawUTF8): boolean; overload; virtual;
    /// check if the supplied text word is not a keyword for the current database engine
    // - just a wrapper around the overloaded class function
    function IsSQLKeyword(aWord: RawUTF8): boolean; overload;
    /// retrieve a list of stored procedure names from current connection
    procedure GetProcedureNames(out Procedures: TRawUTF8DynArray); virtual;
    /// retrieve procedure input/output parameter information
    // - aProcName: stored procedure name to retrieve parameter infomation.
    // - Parameters: parameter list info (name, datatype, direction, default)
    procedure GetProcedureParameters(const aProcName: RawUTF8;
      out Parameters: TSQLDBProcColumnDefineDynArray); virtual;
    /// get all table names
    // - this default implementation will use protected SQLGetTableNames virtual
    // method to retrieve the table names
    procedure GetTableNames(out Tables: TRawUTF8DynArray); virtual;
    /// get all view names
    // - this default implementation will use protected SQLGetViewNames virtual
    // method to retrieve the view names
    procedure GetViewNames(out Views: TRawUTF8DynArray); virtual;
    /// retrieve a foreign key for a specified table and column
    // - first time it is called, it will retrieve all foreign keys from the
    // remote database using virtual protected GetForeignKeys method into
    // the protected fForeignKeys list: this may be slow, depending on the
    // database access (more than 10 seconds waiting is possible)
    // - any further call will use this internal list, so response will be
    // immediate
    // - the whole foreign key list is shared by all connections
    function GetForeignKey(const aTableName, aColumnName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8;

    /// returns the information to adapt the LIMIT # clause in the SQL SELECT
    // statement to a syntax matching the underlying DBMS
    // - e.g. TSQLRestStorageExternal.AdaptSQLForEngineList() calls this
    // to let TSQLRestServer.URI by-pass virtual table mechanism
    function SQLLimitClause(AStmt: TSynTableStatement): TSQLDBDefinitionLimitClause; virtual;
    /// determine if the SQL statement can be cached
    // - used by TSQLDBConnection.NewStatementPrepared() for handling cache
    function IsCachable(P: PUTF8Char): boolean; virtual;
    /// return the database engine name, as computed from the class name
    // - 'TSQLDBConnectionProperties' will be trimmed left side of the class name
    class function EngineName: RawUTF8;

    /// return a shared connection, corresponding to the given database
    // - call the ThreadSafeConnection method instead e.g. for multi-thread
    // access, or NewThreadSafeStatement for direct retrieval of a new statement
    property MainConnection: TSQLDBConnection read GetMainConnection;
    /// the associated User Password, as specified at creation
    // - not published, for security reasons (may be serialized otherwise)
    property PassWord: RawUTF8 read fPassWord;
    /// the associated database name, as specified at creation
    // - not published, for security reasons (may be serialized otherwise)
    // - DatabaseNameSafe will be published, and delete any matching
    // PasswordValue in DatabaseName
    property DatabaseName: RawUTF8 read fDatabaseName;
    /// can be used to store the fForeignKeys[] data in an external BLOB
    // - since GetForeignKeys can be (somewhat) slow, could save a lot of time
    property ForeignKeysData: RawByteString
      read GetForeignKeysData write SetForeignKeysData;
    /// this event handler will be called during all process
    // - can be used e.g. to change the desktop cursor, or be notified
    // on connection/disconnection/reconnection
    // - you can override this property directly in the TSQLDBConnection
    property OnProcess: TOnSQLDBProcess read fOnProcess write fOnProcess;
    /// this event handler will be called when statements trigger some low-level
    // information
    property OnStatementInfo: TOnSQLDBInfo read fOnStatementInfo write fOnStatementInfo;
    /// you can define a callback method able to handle multiple INSERT
    // - may execute e.g. INSERT with multiple VALUES (like MySQL, MSSQL, NexusDB,
    // PostgreSQL or SQlite3), as defined by MultipleValuesInsert() callback
    property OnBatchInsert: TOnBatchInsert read fOnBatchInsert write fOnBatchInsert;
  published { to be logged as JSON - no UserID nor Password for security :) }
    /// return the database engine name, as computed from the class name
    // - 'TSQLDBConnectionProperties' will be trimmed left side of the class name
    property Engine: RawUTF8 read fEngineName;
    /// the associated server name, as specified at creation
    property ServerName: RawUTF8 read fServerName;
    /// the associated database name, safely trimmed from the password
    // - would replace any matching Password value content from DatabaseName
    // by '***' for security reasons, e.g. before serialization
    property DatabaseNameSafe: RawUTF8 read GetDatabaseNameSafe;
    /// the associated User Identifier, as specified at creation
    property UserID: RawUTF8 read fUserID;
    /// the remote DBMS type, as stated by the inheriting class itself, or
    //  retrieved at connecton time (e.g. for ODBC)
    property DBMS: TSQLDBDefinition read GetDBMS;
    /// the remote DBMS type name, retrieved as text from the DBMS property
    property DBMSEngineName: RawUTF8 read GetDBMSName;
    /// the abilities of the database for batch sending
    // - e.g. Oracle will handle array DML binds, or MS SQL bulk insert
    property BatchSendingAbilities: TSQLDBStatementCRUDs read fBatchSendingAbilities;
    /// the maximum number of rows to be transmitted at once for batch sending
    // - e.g. Oracle handles array DML operation with iters <= 32767 at best
    // - if OnBatchInsert points to MultipleValuesInsert(), this value is
    // ignored, and the maximum number of parameters is guessed per DBMS type
    property BatchMaxSentAtOnce: integer read fBatchMaxSentAtOnce write fBatchMaxSentAtOnce;
    /// the maximum size, in bytes, of logged SQL statements
    // - setting 0 will log statement and parameters with no size limit
    // - setting -1 will log statement without any parameter value (just ?)
    // - setting any value >0 will log statement and parameters up to the
    // number of bytes (default set to 2048 to log up to 2KB per statement)
    property LoggedSQLMaxSize: integer read fLoggedSQLMaxSize write fLoggedSQLMaxSize;
    /// allow to log the SQL statement when any low-level ESQLDBException is raised
    property LogSQLStatementOnException: boolean read fLogSQLStatementOnException
      write fLogSQLStatementOnException;
    /// an optional Schema name to be used for SQLGetField() instead of UserID
    // - by default, UserID will be used as schema name, if none is specified
    // (i.e. if table name is not set as SCHEMA.TABLE)
    // - depending on the DBMS identified, the class may also set automatically
    // the default 'dbo' for MS SQL or 'public' for PostgreSQL
    // - you can set a custom schema to be used instead
    property ForcedSchemaName: RawUTF8 read fForcedSchemaName write fForcedSchemaName;
    /// if GetTableNames/GetViewNames should only return the table names
    // starting with 'ForcedSchemaName.' prefix
    property FilterTableViewSchemaName: boolean
      read fFilterTableViewSchemaName write fFilterTableViewSchemaName;
    /// TRUE if an internal cache of SQL statement should be used
    // - cache will be accessed for NewStatementPrepared() method only, by
    // returning ISQLDBStatement interface instances
    // - default value is TRUE for faster process (e.g. TTestSQLite3ExternalDB
    // regression tests will be two times faster with statement caching)
    // - will cache only statements containing ? parameters or a SELECT with no
    // WHERE clause within
    property UseCache: boolean read fUseCache write fUseCache;
    /// maximum bytes allowed for FetchAllToJSON/FetchAllToBinary methods
    // - if a result set exceeds this limit, an ESQLDBException is raised
    // - default is 512 shl 20, i.e. 512MB which is very high
    // - avoid unexpected OutOfMemory errors when incorrect statement is run
    property StatementMaxMemory: Int64
      read fStatementMaxMemory write fStatementMaxMemory;
    /// if UseCache is true, how many statement replicates can be generated
    // if the cached ISQLDBStatement is already used
    // - such replication is normally not needed in a per-thread connection,
    // unless ISQLDBStatement are not released as soon as possible
    // - above this limit, no cache will be made, and a dedicated single-time
    // statement will be prepared
    // - default is 0 to cache statements once - but you may try to increase
    // this value if you run identical SQL with long-standing ISQLDBStatement;
    // or you can set -1 if you don't want the warning log to appear
    property StatementCacheReplicates: integer read fStatementCacheReplicates
      write fStatementCacheReplicates;
    /// defines if TSQLDBConnection.Disconnect shall Rollback any pending
    // transaction
    // - some engines executes a COMMIT when the client is disconnected, others
    // do raise an exception: this parameter ensures that any pending transaction
    // is roll-backed before disconnection
    // - is set to TRUE by default
    property RollbackOnDisconnect: Boolean read fRollbackOnDisconnect write fRollbackOnDisconnect;
    /// defines if '' string values are to be stored as SQL null
    // - by default, '' will be stored as ''
    // - but some DB engines (e.g. Jet or MS SQL) does not allow by default to
    // store '' values, but expect NULL to be stored instead
    property StoreVoidStringAsNull: Boolean read fStoreVoidStringAsNull write fStoreVoidStringAsNull;
    /// customize the ISO-8601 text format expected by the database provider
    // - is 'T' by default, as expected by the ISO-8601 standard
    // - will be changed e.g. for PostgreSQL, which expects ' ' instead
    // - as used by SQLDateToIso8601Quoted() and BindArray()
    property DateTimeFirstChar: AnsiChar read fDateTimeFirstChar write fDateTimeFirstChar;
    {$ifndef UNICODE}
    /// set to true to force all variant conversion to WideString instead of
    // the default faster AnsiString, for pre-Unicode version of Delphi
    // - by default, the conversion to Variant will create an AnsiString kind
    // of variant: for pre-Unicode Delphi, avoiding WideString/OleStr content
    // will speed up the process a lot, if you are sure that the current
    // charset matches the expected one (which is very likely)
    // - set this property to TRUE so that the conversion to Variant will
    // create a WideString kind of variant, to avoid any character data loss:
    // the access to the property will be slower, but you won't have any
    // potential data loss
    // - starting with Delphi 2009, the TEXT content will be stored as an
    // UnicodeString in the variant, so this property is not necessary
    // - the Variant conversion is mostly used for the TQuery wrapper, or for
    // the ISQLDBRows.Column[] property or ISQLDBRows.ColumnVariant() method;
    // this won't affect other Column*() methods, or JSON production
    property VariantStringAsWideString: boolean read fVariantWideString write fVariantWideString;
    {$endif}
    /// SQL statements what will be executed for each new connection
    // usage scenarios examples:
    // - Oracle: force case-insensitive like
    // $  ['ALTER SESSION SET NLS_COMP=LINGUISTIC', 'ALTER SESSION SET NLS_SORT=BINARY_CI']
    //  - Postgres: disable notices and warnings
    // $  ['SET client_min_messages to ERROR']
    // - SQLite3: turn foreign keys ON
    // $  ['PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON']
    property ExecuteWhenConnected: TRawUTF8DynArray read fExecuteWhenConnected
      write fExecuteWhenConnected;
  end;

  {$ifdef WITH_PROXY}
  /// server-side implementation of a proxy connection to any SynDB engine
  // - this default implementation will send the data without compression,
  // digital signature, nor encryption
  // - inherit from this class to customize the transmission layer content
  TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocol = class
  protected
    fAuthenticate: TSynAuthenticationAbstract;
    fTransactionSessionID: integer;
    fTransactionRetryTimeout: Int64;
    fTransactionActiveTimeout: Int64;
    fTransactionActiveAutoReleaseTicks: Int64;
    fLock: TRTLCriticalSection;
    function GetAuthenticate: TSynAuthenticationAbstract;
    /// default Handle*() will just return the incoming value
    function HandleInput(const input: RawByteString): RawByteString; virtual;
    function HandleOutput(const output: RawByteString): RawByteString; virtual;
    /// default trial transaction
    function TransactionStarted(connection: TSQLDBConnection;
      sessionID: integer): boolean; virtual;
    procedure TransactionEnd(sessionID: integer); virtual;
  public
    /// initialize a protocol, with a given authentication scheme
    // - if no authentication is given, none will be processed
    constructor Create(aAuthenticate: TSynAuthenticationAbstract); reintroduce;
    /// release associated authentication class
    destructor Destroy; override;
    /// the associated authentication information
    // - you can manage users via AuthenticateUser/DisauthenticateUser methods
    property Authenticate: TSynAuthenticationAbstract read GetAuthenticate write fAuthenticate;
  end;

  /// server-side implementation of a remote connection to any SynDB engine
  // - implements digitally signed SynLZ-compressed binary message format,
  // with simple symmetric encryption, as expected by SynDBRemote.pas
  TSQLDBRemoteConnectionProtocol = class(TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocol)
  protected
    /// SynLZ decompression + digital signature + encryption
    function HandleInput(const input: RawByteString): RawByteString; override;
    /// SynLZ compression + digital signature + encryption
    function HandleOutput(const output: RawByteString): RawByteString; override;
  public
  end;

  /// specify the class of a proxy/remote connection to any SynDB engine
  TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocolClass = class of TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocol;
  {$endif WITH_PROXY}

  /// abstract connection created from TSQLDBConnectionProperties
  // - more than one TSQLDBConnection instance can be run for the same
  // TSQLDBConnectionProperties
  TSQLDBConnection = class
  protected
    fProperties: TSQLDBConnectionProperties;
    fErrorException: ExceptClass;
    fErrorMessage: RawUTF8;
    fTransactionCount: integer;
    fServerTimestampOffset: TDateTime;
    fServerTimestampAtConnection: TDateTime;
    fCache: TRawUTF8List;
    fOnProcess: TOnSQLDBProcess;
    fTotalConnectionCount: integer;
    fInternalProcessActive: integer;
    fRollbackOnDisconnect: Boolean;
    fLastAccessTicks: Int64;
    function IsOutdated(tix: Int64): boolean; // do not make virtual
    function GetInTransaction: boolean; virtual;
    function GetServerTimestamp: TTimeLog;
    function GetServerDateTime: TDateTime; virtual;
    function GetLastErrorWasAboutConnection: boolean;
    /// raise an exception if IsConnected returns false
    procedure CheckConnection;
    /// call OnProcess() call back event, if needed
    procedure InternalProcess(Event: TOnSQLDBProcessEvent);
  public
    /// connect to a specified database engine
    constructor Create(aProperties: TSQLDBConnectionProperties); virtual;
    /// release memory and connection
    destructor Destroy; override;

    /// connect to the specified database
    // - should raise an Exception on error
    // - this default implementation will notify OnProgress callback for
    // sucessfull re-connection: it should be called in overridden methods
    // AFTER actual connection process
    procedure Connect; virtual;
    /// stop connection to the specified database
    // - should raise an Exception on error
    // - this default implementation will release all cached statements: so it
    // should be called in overridden methods BEFORE actual disconnection
    procedure Disconnect; virtual;
    /// return TRUE if Connect has been already successfully called
    function IsConnected: boolean; virtual; abstract;
    /// initialize a new SQL query statement for the given connection
    // - the caller should free the instance after use
    function NewStatement: TSQLDBStatement; virtual; abstract;
    /// initialize a new SQL query statement for the given connection
    // - this default implementation will call the NewStatement method, and
    // implement handle statement caching is UseCache=true - in this case,
    // the TSQLDBStatement.Reset method shall have been overridden to allow
    // binding and execution of the very same prepared statement
    // - the same aSQL can cache up to 9 statements in this TSQLDBConnection
    // - this method should return a prepared statement instance on success
    // - on error, if RaiseExceptionOnError=false (by default), it returns nil
    // and you can check LastErrorMessage and LastErrorException properties to
    // retrieve corresponding error information
    // - if TSQLDBConnectionProperties.ReconnectAfterConnectionError is set,
    // any connection error will be trapped, unless AllowReconnect is false
    // - on error, if RaiseExceptionOnError=true, an exception is raised
    function NewStatementPrepared(const aSQL: RawUTF8; ExpectResults: Boolean;
      RaiseExceptionOnError: Boolean=false; AllowReconnect: Boolean=true): ISQLDBStatement; virtual;
    /// begin a Transaction for this connection
    // - this default implementation will check and set TransactionCount
    procedure StartTransaction; virtual;
    /// commit changes of a Transaction for this connection
    // - StartTransaction method must have been called before
    // - this default implementation will check and set TransactionCount
    procedure Commit; virtual;
    /// discard changes of a Transaction for this connection
    // - StartTransaction method must have been called before
    // - this default implementation will check and set TransactionCount
    procedure Rollback; virtual;

    /// direct export of a DB statement rows into a new table of this database
    // - the corresponding table will be created within the current connection,
    // if it does not exist
    // - if the column types are not set, they will be identified from the
    // first row of data
    // - INSERTs will be nested within a transaction if WithinTransaction is TRUE
    // - will raise an Exception in case of error
    function NewTableFromRows(const TableName: RawUTF8;
      Rows: TSQLDBStatement; WithinTransaction: boolean;
      ColumnForcedTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypeDynArray=nil): integer;
    {$ifdef WITH_PROXY}
    /// server-side implementation of a remote connection to any SynDB engine
    // - follow the compressed binary message format expected by the
    // TSQLDBRemoteConnectionPropertiesAbstract.ProcessMessage method
    // - any transmission protocol could call this method to execute the
    // corresponding TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommand on the current connection
    procedure RemoteProcessMessage(const Input: RawByteString;
      out Output: RawByteString; Protocol: TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocol); virtual;
    {$endif WITH_PROXY}

    /// the current Date and Time, as retrieved from the server
    // - note that this value is the DB_SERVERTIME[] constant SQL value, so
    // will most likely return a local time, not an UTC time
    // - this property will return the timestamp in TTimeLog / TTimeLogBits /
    // Int64 value
    property ServerTimestamp: TTimeLog read GetServerTimestamp;
    /// the current Date and Time, as retrieved from the server
    // - note that this value is the DB_SERVERTIME[] constant SQL value, so
    // will most likely return a local time, not an UTC time
    // - this property will return the value as regular TDateTime
    property ServerDateTime: TDateTime read GetServerDateTime;
    /// this event handler will be called during all process
    // - can be used e.g. to change the desktop cursor
    // - by default, will follow TSQLDBConnectionProperties.OnProcess property
    property OnProcess: TOnSQLDBProcess read fOnProcess write fOnProcess;
  published { to be logged as JSON }
    /// returns TRUE if the connection was set
    property Connected: boolean read IsConnected;
    /// the time returned by the server when the connection occurred
    property ServerTimestampAtConnection: TDateTime read fServerTimestampAtConnection;
    /// number of sucessfull connections for this instance
    // - can be greater than 1 in case of re-connection via Disconnect/Connect
    property TotalConnectionCount: integer read fTotalConnectionCount;
    /// number of nested StartTransaction calls
    // - equals 0 if no transaction is active
    property TransactionCount: integer read fTransactionCount;
    /// TRUE if StartTransaction has been called
    // - check if TransactionCount>0
    property InTransaction: boolean read GetInTransaction;
    /// defines if Disconnect shall Rollback any pending transaction
    // - some engines executes a COMMIT when the client is disconnected, others
    // do raise an exception: this parameter ensures that any pending transaction
    // is roll-backed before disconnection
    // - is set to TRUE by default
    property RollbackOnDisconnect: Boolean
      read fRollbackOnDisconnect write fRollbackOnDisconnect;
    /// some error message, e.g. during execution of NewStatementPrepared
    property LastErrorMessage: RawUTF8 read fErrorMessage write fErrorMessage;
    /// some error exception, e.g. during execution of NewStatementPrepared
    property LastErrorException: ExceptClass read fErrorException;
    /// TRUE if last error is a broken connection, e.g. during execution of
    // NewStatementPrepared
    // - i.e. LastErrorException/LastErrorMessage concerns the database connection
    // - will use TSQLDBConnectionProperties.ExceptionIsAboutConnection virtual method
    property LastErrorWasAboutConnection: boolean read GetLastErrorWasAboutConnection;
    /// the associated database properties
    property Properties: TSQLDBConnectionProperties read fProperties;
  end;

  /// generic abstract class to implement a prepared SQL query
  // - inherited classes should implement the DB-specific connection in its
  // overridden methods, especially Bind*(), Prepare(), ExecutePrepared, Step()
  // and Column*() methods
  TSQLDBStatement = class(TInterfacedObject, ISQLDBRows, ISQLDBStatement)
  protected
    fStripSemicolon: boolean;
    fConnection: TSQLDBConnection;
    fSQL: RawUTF8;
    fExpectResults: boolean;
    fParamCount: integer;
    fColumnCount: integer;
    fTotalRowsRetrieved: Integer;
    fCurrentRow: Integer;
    fForceBlobAsNull: boolean;
    fForceDateWithMS: boolean;
    fDBMS: TSQLDBDefinition;
    {$ifndef SYNDB_SILENCE}
    fSQLLogLog: TSynLog;
    fSQLLogLevel: TSynLogInfo;
    {$endif}
    fSQLWithInlinedParams: RawUTF8;
    fSQLLogTimer: TPrecisionTimer;
    fCacheIndex: integer;
    fSQLPrepared: RawUTF8;
    function GetSQLCurrent: RawUTF8;
    function GetSQLWithInlinedParams: RawUTF8;
    procedure ComputeSQLWithInlinedParams;
    function GetForceBlobAsNull: boolean;
    procedure SetForceBlobAsNull(value: boolean);
    function GetForceDateWithMS: boolean;
    procedure SetForceDateWithMS(value: boolean);
    /// raise an exception if Col is out of range according to fColumnCount
    procedure CheckCol(Col: integer); {$ifdef HASINLINE}inline;{$endif}
    /// will set a Int64/Double/Currency/TDateTime/RawUTF8/TBlobData Dest variable
    // from a given column value
    // - internal conversion will use a temporary Variant and ColumnToVariant method
    // - expects Dest to be of the exact type (e.g. Int64, not Integer)
    function ColumnToTypedValue(Col: integer; DestType: TSQLDBFieldType; var Dest): TSQLDBFieldType;
    /// append the inlined value of a given parameter, mainly for GetSQLWithInlinedParams
    // - optional MaxCharCount will truncate the text to a given number of chars
    procedure AddParamValueAsText(Param: integer; Dest: TTextWriter; MaxCharCount: integer); virtual;
    {$ifndef LVCL}
    /// return a Column as a variant
    function GetColumnVariant(const ColName: RawUTF8): Variant;
    {$endif}
    /// return the associated statement instance for a ISQLDBRows interface
    function Instance: TSQLDBStatement;
    /// wrappers to compute sllSQL/sllDB SQL context with a local timer
    function SQLLogBegin(level: TSynLogInfo): TSynLog;
    function SQLLogEnd(const Fmt: RawUTF8; const Args: array of const): Int64; overload;
    function SQLLogEnd(msg: PShortString=nil): Int64; overload;
  public
    /// create a statement instance
    constructor Create(aConnection: TSQLDBConnection); virtual;

    /// bind a NULL value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - some providers (e.g. OleDB during MULTI INSERT statements) expect the
    // proper column type to be set in BoundType, even for NULL values
    procedure BindNull(Param: Integer; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn;
      BoundType: TSQLDBFieldType=ftNull); virtual; abstract;
    /// bind an integer value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure Bind(Param: Integer; Value: Int64;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// bind a double value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure Bind(Param: Integer; Value: double;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// bind a TDateTime value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindDateTime(Param: Integer; Value: TDateTime;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// bind a currency value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindCurrency(Param: Integer; Value: currency;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// bind a UTF-8 encoded string to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindTextU(Param: Integer; const Value: RawUTF8;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// bind a UTF-8 encoded buffer text (#0 ended) to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindTextP(Param: Integer; Value: PUTF8Char;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// bind a UTF-8 encoded string to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindTextS(Param: Integer; const Value: string;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// bind a UTF-8 encoded string to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindTextW(Param: Integer; const Value: WideString;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// bind a Blob buffer to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindBlob(Param: Integer; Data: pointer; Size: integer;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// bind a Blob buffer to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindBlob(Param: Integer; const Data: RawByteString;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// bind a Variant value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - will call all virtual Bind*() methods from the Data type
    // - if DataIsBlob is TRUE, will call BindBlob(RawByteString(Data)) instead
    // of BindTextW(WideString(Variant)) - used e.g. by TQuery.AsBlob/AsBytes
    procedure BindVariant(Param: Integer; const Data: Variant; DataIsBlob: boolean;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); virtual;
    /// bind one TSQLVar value
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - this default implementation will call corresponding Bind*() method
    procedure Bind(Param: Integer; const Data: TSQLVar;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; virtual;
    /// bind one RawUTF8 encoded value
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - the value should match the BindArray() format, i.e. be stored as in SQL
    // (i.e. number, 'quoted string', 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss', null) - e.g. as
    // computed by TJSONObjectDecoder.Decode()
    procedure Bind(Param: Integer; ParamType: TSQLDBFieldType; const Value: RawUTF8;
      ValueAlreadyUnquoted: boolean; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; virtual;
    /// bind an array of const values
    // - parameters marked as ? should be specified as method parameter in Params[]
    // - BLOB parameters can be bound with this method, when set after encoding
    // via BinToBase64WithMagic() call
    // - TDateTime parameters can be bound with this method, when encoded via
    // a DateToSQL() or DateTimeToSQL() call
    // - any variant parameter will be bound with BindVariant(i,VVariant^,true,IO)
    // i.e. with DataIsBlob=true
    // - this default implementation will call corresponding Bind*() method
    procedure Bind(const Params: array of const;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; virtual;
    /// bind an array of fields from an existing SQL statement
    // - can be used e.g. after ColumnsToSQLInsert() method call for fast data
    // conversion between tables
    procedure BindFromRows(const Fields: TSQLDBFieldTypeDynArray;
      Rows: TSQLDBStatement);
    /// bind a special CURSOR parameter to be returned as a SynDB result set
    // - Cursors are not handled internally by mORMot, but some databases (e.g.
    // Oracle) usually use such structures to get data from strored procedures
    // - such parameters are mapped as ftUnknown
    // - use BoundCursor() method to retrieve the corresponding ISQLDBRows after
    // execution of the statement
    // - this default method will raise an exception about unexpected behavior
    procedure BindCursor(Param: integer); virtual;
    /// return a special CURSOR parameter content as a SynDB result set
    // - this method is not about a column, but a parameter defined with
    // BindCursor() before method execution
    // - Cursors are not handled internally by mORMot, but some databases (e.g.
    // Oracle) usually use such structures to get data from strored procedures
    // - this method allow direct access to the data rows after execution
    // - this default method will raise an exception about unexpected behavior
    function BoundCursor(Param: Integer): ISQLDBRows; virtual;

    /// bind an array of values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - values are stored as in SQL (i.e. number, 'quoted string',
    // 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss', null)
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    procedure BindArray(Param: Integer; ParamType: TSQLDBFieldType;
      const Values: TRawUTF8DynArray; ValuesCount: integer); overload; virtual;
    /// bind an array of integer values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    procedure BindArray(Param: Integer; const Values: array of Int64); overload; virtual;
    /// bind an array of double values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    procedure BindArray(Param: Integer; const Values: array of double); overload; virtual;
    /// bind an array of TDateTime values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - values are stored as in SQL (i.e. 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss')
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    procedure BindArrayDateTime(Param: Integer; const Values: array of TDateTime); virtual;
    /// bind an array of currency values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    procedure BindArrayCurrency(Param: Integer; const Values: array of currency); virtual;
    /// bind an array of RawUTF8 values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - values are stored as in SQL (i.e. 'quoted string')
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    procedure BindArray(Param: Integer; const Values: array of RawUTF8); overload; virtual;

    /// Prepare an UTF-8 encoded SQL statement
    // - parameters marked as ? will be bound later, before ExecutePrepared call
    // - if ExpectResults is TRUE, then Step() and Column*() methods are available
    // to retrieve the data rows
    // - should raise an Exception on any error
    // - this default implementation will just store aSQL content and the
    // ExpectResults parameter, and connect to the remote server is was not
    // already connected
    procedure Prepare(const aSQL: RawUTF8; ExpectResults: Boolean); overload; virtual;
    /// Execute a prepared SQL statement
    // - parameters marked as ? should have been already bound with Bind*() functions
    // - should raise an Exception on any error
    // - this void default implementation will call set fConnection.fLastAccess
    procedure ExecutePrepared; virtual;
    /// release cursor memory and resources once Step loop is finished
    // - this method call is optional, but is better be used if the ISQLDBRows
    // statement from taken from cache, and returned a lot of content which
    // may still be in client (and server) memory
    // - override to free cursor memory when ISQLDBStatement is back in cache
    procedure ReleaseRows; virtual;
    /// Reset the previous prepared statement
    // - some drivers expect an explicit reset before binding parameters and
    // executing the statement another time
    // - this default implementation will just do nothing
    procedure Reset; virtual;
    /// Prepare and Execute an UTF-8 encoded SQL statement
    // - parameters marked as ? should have been already bound with Bind*()
    //  functions above
    // - if ExpectResults is TRUE, then Step() and Column*() methods are available
    //  to retrieve the data rows
    // - should raise an Exception on any error
    // - this method will call Prepare then ExecutePrepared methods
    procedure Execute(const aSQL: RawUTF8; ExpectResults: Boolean); overload;
    /// Prepare and Execute an UTF-8 encoded SQL statement
    // - parameters marked as ? should be specified as method parameter in Params[]
    // - BLOB parameters could not be bound with this method, but need an explicit
    // call to BindBlob() method
    // - if ExpectResults is TRUE, then Step() and Column*() methods are available
    // to retrieve the data rows
    // - should raise an Exception on any error
    // - this method will bind parameters, then call Excecute() virtual method
    procedure Execute(const aSQL: RawUTF8; ExpectResults: Boolean;
      const Params: array of const); overload;
    /// Prepare and Execute an UTF-8 encoded SQL statement
    // - parameters marked as % will be replaced by Args[] value in the SQL text
    // - parameters marked as ? should be specified as method parameter in Params[]
    // - so could be used as such, mixing both % and ? parameters:
    // ! Statement.Execute('SELECT % FROM % WHERE RowID=?',true,[FieldName,TableName],[ID])
    // - BLOB parameters could not be bound with this method, but need an explicit
    // call to BindBlob() method
    // - if ExpectResults is TRUE, then Step() and Column*() methods are available
    // to retrieve the data rows
    // - should raise an Exception on any error
    // - this method will bind parameters, then call Excecute() virtual method
    procedure Execute(const SQLFormat: RawUTF8; ExpectResults: Boolean;
      const Args, Params: array of const); overload;
    /// execute a prepared SQL statement and return all rows content as a JSON string
    // - JSON data is retrieved with UTF-8 encoding
    // - if Expanded is true, JSON data is an array of objects, for direct use
    // with any Ajax or .NET client:
    // & [ {"col1":val11,"col2":"val12"},{"col1":val21,... ]
    // - if Expanded is false, JSON data is serialized (used in TSQLTableJSON)
    // & { "FieldCount":1,"Values":["col1","col2",val11,"val12",val21,..] }
    // - BLOB field value is saved as Base64, in the '"\uFFF0base64encodedbinary"'
    // format and contains true BLOB data
    // - this virtual implementation calls ExecutePrepared then FetchAllAsJSON()
    procedure ExecutePreparedAndFetchAllAsJSON(Expanded: boolean; out JSON: RawUTF8); virtual;
    /// gets a number of updates made by latest executed statement
    // - default implementation returns 0
    function UpdateCount: integer; virtual;
    {$ifndef LVCL}
    /// retrieve the parameter content, after SQL execution
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - to be used e.g. with stored procedures:
    // ! query :=  'BEGIN TEST_PKG.DUMMY(?, ?, ?, ?, ?); END;';
    // ! stmt := Props.NewThreadSafeStatementPrepared(query, false);
    // ! stmt.Bind(1, in1, paramIn);
    // ! stmt.BindTextU(2, in2, paramIn);
    // ! stmt.BindTextU(3, in3, paramIn);
    // ! stmt.BindTextS(4, '', paramOut); //  to be retrieved with out1: string
    // ! stmt.Bind(5, 0, paramOut);       //  to be retrieved with out2: integer
    // ! stmt.ExecutePrepared;
    // ! stmt.ParamToVariant(4, out1, true);
    // ! stmt.ParamToVariant(5, out2, true);
    // - the parameter should have been bound with IO=paramOut or IO=paramInOut
    // if CheckIsOutParameter is TRUE
    // - this implementation just check that Param is correct: overridden method
    // should fill Value content
    function ParamToVariant(Param: Integer; var Value: Variant;
      CheckIsOutParameter: boolean=true): TSQLDBFieldType; virtual;
    {$endif}

    /// After a statement has been prepared via Prepare() + ExecutePrepared() or
    // Execute(), this method must be called one or more times to evaluate it
    // - you shall call this method before calling any Column*() methods
    // - return TRUE on success, with data ready to be retrieved by Column*()
    // - return FALSE if no more row is available (e.g. if the SQL statement
    // is not a SELECT but an UPDATE or INSERT command)
    // - access the first or next row of data from the SQL Statement result:
    // if SeekFirst is TRUE, will put the cursor on the first row of results,
    // otherwise, it will fetch one row of data, to be called within a loop
    // - should raise an Exception on any error
    // - typical use may be (see also e.g. the mORMotDB unit):
    // ! var Query: ISQLDBStatement;
    // ! begin
    // !   Query := Props.NewThreadSafeStatementPrepared('select AccountNumber from Sales.Customer where AccountNumber like ?', ['AW000001%'],true);
    // !   if Query<>nil then begin
    // !     assert(SameTextU(Query.ColumnName(0),'AccountNumber'));
    // !     while Query.Step do //  loop through all matching data rows
    // !       assert(Copy(Query.ColumnUTF8(0),1,8)='AW000001');
    // !     Query.ReleaseRows;
    // !   end;
    // ! end;
    function Step(SeekFirst: boolean=false): boolean; virtual; abstract;
    /// the column/field count of the current Row
    function ColumnCount: integer;
    /// the Column name of the current Row
    // - Columns numeration (i.e. Col value) starts with 0
    // - it's up to the implementation to ensure than all column names are unique
    function ColumnName(Col: integer): RawUTF8; virtual; abstract;
    /// returns the Column index of a given Column name
    // - Columns numeration (i.e. Col value) starts with 0
    // - returns -1 if the Column name is not found (via case insensitive search)
    function ColumnIndex(const aColumnName: RawUTF8): integer; virtual; abstract;
    /// the Column type of the current Row
    // - FieldSize can be set to store the size in chars of a ftUTF8 column
    // (0 means BLOB kind of TEXT column)
    function ColumnType(Col: integer; FieldSize: PInteger=nil): TSQLDBFieldType; virtual; abstract;
    /// returns TRUE if the column contains NULL
    function ColumnNull(Col: integer): boolean; virtual; abstract;
    /// return a Column integer value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnInt(Col: integer): Int64; overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// return a Column floating point value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnDouble(Col: integer): double; overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// return a Column date and time value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnDateTime(Col: integer): TDateTime; overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// return a column date and time value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    // - call ColumnDateTime or ColumnUTF8 to convert into TTimeLogBits/Int64 time
    // stamp from a TDateTime or text
    function ColumnTimestamp(Col: integer): TTimeLog; overload;
    /// return a Column currency value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnCurrency(Col: integer): currency; overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// return a Column UTF-8 encoded text value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnUTF8(Col: integer): RawUTF8; overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// return a Column text value as generic VCL string of the current Row, first Col is 0
    // - this default implementation will call ColumnUTF8
    function ColumnString(Col: integer): string; overload; virtual;
    /// return a Column as a blob value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnBlob(Col: integer): RawByteString; overload; virtual; abstract;
    /// return a Column as a blob value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    // - this function will return the BLOB content as a TBytes
    // - this default virtual method will call ColumnBlob()
    function ColumnBlobBytes(Col: integer): TBytes; overload; virtual;
    /// read a blob Column into the Stream parameter
    // - default implementation will just call ColumnBlob(), whereas some
    // providers (like SynDBOracle) may implement direct support
    procedure ColumnBlobToStream(Col: integer; Stream: TStream); overload; virtual;
    /// write a blob Column into the Stream parameter
    // - expected to be used with 'SELECT .. FOR UPDATE' locking statements
    // - default implementation will through an exception, since it is highly
    // provider-specific; SynDBOracle e.g. implements it properly
    procedure ColumnBlobFromStream(Col: integer; Stream: TStream); overload; virtual;
    {$ifndef LVCL}
    /// return a Column as a variant, first Col is 0
    // - this default implementation will call ColumnToVariant() method
    // - a ftUTF8 TEXT content will be mapped into a generic WideString variant
    // for pre-Unicode version of Delphi, and a generic UnicodeString (=string)
    // since Delphi 2009: you may not loose any data during charset conversion
    // - a ftBlob BLOB content will be mapped into a TBlobData AnsiString variant
    function ColumnVariant(Col: integer): Variant; overload;
    /// return a Column as a variant, first Col is 0
    // - this default implementation will call Column*() method above
    // - a ftUTF8 TEXT content will be mapped into a generic WideString variant
    // for pre-Unicode version of Delphi, and a generic UnicodeString (=string)
    // since Delphi 2009: you may not loose any data during charset conversion
    // - a ftBlob BLOB content will be mapped into a TBlobData AnsiString variant
    function ColumnToVariant(Col: integer; var Value: Variant): TSQLDBFieldType; virtual;
    {$endif}
    /// return a Column as a TSQLVar value, first Col is 0
    // - the specified Temp variable will be used for temporary storage of
    // svtUTF8/svtBlob values
    procedure ColumnToSQLVar(Col: Integer; var Value: TSQLVar;
      var Temp: RawByteString); virtual;
    /// return a special CURSOR Column content as a SynDB result set
    // - Cursors are not handled internally by mORMot, but some databases (e.g.
    // Oracle) usually use such structures to get data from strored procedures
    // - such columns are mapped as ftNull internally - so this method is the only
    // one giving access to the data rows
    // - this default method will raise an exception about unexpected behavior
    function ColumnCursor(Col: integer): ISQLDBRows; overload; virtual;
    /// return a Column integer value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnInt(const ColName: RawUTF8): Int64; overload;
    /// return a Column floating point value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnDouble(const ColName: RawUTF8): double; overload;
    /// return a Column date and time value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnDateTime(const ColName: RawUTF8): TDateTime; overload;
    /// return a column date and time value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    // - call ColumnDateTime or ColumnUTF8 to convert into TTimeLogBits/Int64 time
    // stamp from a TDateTime or text
    function ColumnTimestamp(const ColName: RawUTF8): TTimeLog; overload;
    /// return a Column currency value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnCurrency(const ColName: RawUTF8): currency; overload;
    /// return a Column UTF-8 encoded text value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnUTF8(const ColName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8; overload;
    /// return a Column text value as generic VCL string of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnString(const ColName: RawUTF8): string; overload;
    /// return a Column as a blob value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnBlob(const ColName: RawUTF8): RawByteString; overload;
    /// return a Column as a blob value of the current Row, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnBlobBytes(const ColName: RawUTF8): TBytes; overload;
    /// read a blob Column into the Stream parameter
    procedure ColumnBlobToStream(const ColName: RawUTF8; Stream: TStream); overload;
    /// write a blob Column into the Stream parameter
    // - expected to be used with 'SELECT .. FOR UPDATE' locking statements
    procedure ColumnBlobFromStream(const ColName: RawUTF8; Stream: TStream); overload;
    {$ifndef LVCL}
    /// return a Column as a variant, from a supplied column name
    function ColumnVariant(const ColName: RawUTF8): Variant; overload;
    {$ifndef DELPHI5OROLDER}
    /// create a TSQLDBRowVariantType able to access any field content via late binding
    // - i.e. you can use Data.Name to access the 'Name' column of the current row
    // - this Variant will point to the corresponding TSQLDBStatement instance,
    // so it's not necessary to retrieve its value for each row
    // - typical use is:
    // ! var Row: Variant;
    // ! (...)
    // !  with MyConnProps.Execute('select * from table where name=?',[aName]) do begin
    // !    Row := RowDaa;
    // !    while Step do
    // !      writeln(Row.FirstName,Row.BirthDate);
    // !    ReleaseRows;
    // !  end;
    function RowData: Variant; virtual;
    /// create a TDocVariant custom variant containing all columns values
    // - will create a "fast" TDocVariant object instance with all fields
    procedure RowDocVariant(out aDocument: variant;
      aOptions: TDocVariantOptions=JSON_OPTIONS_FAST); virtual;
    {$endif}
    {$endif}
    /// return a special CURSOR Column content as a SynDB result set
    // - Cursors are not handled internally by mORMot, but some databases (e.g.
    // Oracle) usually use such structures to get data from strored procedures
    // - such columns are mapped as ftNull internally - so this method is the only
    // one giving access to the data rows
    // - this default method will raise an exception about unexpected behavior
    function ColumnCursor(const ColName: RawUTF8): ISQLDBRows; overload;
    /// append all columns values of the current Row to a JSON stream
    // - will use WR.Expand to guess the expected output format
    // - this default implementation will call Column*() methods above, but you
    // should also implement a custom version with no temporary variable
    // - BLOB field value is saved as Base64, in the '"\uFFF0base64encodedbinary"
    // format and contains true BLOB data (unless ForceBlobAsNull property was set)
    procedure ColumnsToJSON(WR: TJSONWriter); virtual;
    /// compute the SQL INSERT statement corresponding to this columns row
    // - and populate the Fields[] array with columns information (type and name)
    // - if the current column value is NULL, will return ftNull: it is up to the
    // caller to set the proper field type
    // - the SQL statement is prepared with bound parameters, e.g.
    // $ insert into TableName (Col1,Col2) values (?,N)
    // - used e.g. to convert some data on the fly from one database to another,
    // via the TSQLDBConnection.NewTableFromRows method
    function ColumnsToSQLInsert(const TableName: RawUTF8;
      var Fields: TSQLDBColumnCreateDynArray): RawUTF8; virtual;
    // append all rows content as a JSON stream
    // - JSON data is added to the supplied TStream, with UTF-8 encoding
    // - if Expanded is true, JSON data is an array of objects, for direct use
    // with any Ajax or .NET client:
    // & [ {"col1":val11,"col2":"val12"},{"col1":val21,... ]
    // - if Expanded is false, JSON data is serialized (used in TSQLTableJSON)
    // & { "FieldCount":1,"Values":["col1","col2",val11,"val12",val21,..] }
    // - BLOB field value is saved as Base64, in the '"\uFFF0base64encodedbinary"'
    // format and contains true BLOB data
    // - similar to corresponding TSQLRequest.Execute method in SynSQLite3 unit
    // - returns the number of row data returned (excluding field names)
    // - warning: TSQLRestStorageExternal.EngineRetrieve in mORMotDB unit
    // expects the Expanded=true format to return '[{...}]'#10
    function FetchAllToJSON(JSON: TStream; Expanded: boolean): PtrInt;
    // Append all rows content as a CSV stream
    // - CSV data is added to the supplied TStream, with UTF-8 encoding
    // - if Tab=TRUE, will use TAB instead of ',' between columns
    // - you can customize the ',' separator - use e.g. the global ListSeparator
    // variable (from SysUtils) to reflect the current system definition (some
    // country use ',' as decimal separator, for instance our "douce France")
    // - AddBOM will add a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark at the beginning of the content
    // - BLOB fields will be appended as "blob" with no data
    // - returns the number of row data returned
    function FetchAllToCSVValues(Dest: TStream; Tab: boolean; CommaSep: AnsiChar=',';
      AddBOM: boolean=true): PtrInt;
    // return all rows content as a JSON string
    // - JSON data is retrieved with UTF-8 encoding
    // - if Expanded is true, JSON data is an array of objects, for direct use
    // with any Ajax or .NET client:
    // & [ {"col1":val11,"col2":"val12"},{"col1":val21,... ]
    // - if Expanded is false, JSON data is serialized (used in TSQLTableJSON)
    // & { "FieldCount":1,"Values":["col1","col2",val11,"val12",val21,..] }
    // - BLOB field value is saved as Base64, in the '"\uFFF0base64encodedbinary"'
    // format and contains true BLOB data
    // - if ReturnedRowCount points to an integer variable, it will be filled with
    // the number of row data returned (excluding field names)
    // - similar to corresponding TSQLRequest.Execute method in SynSQLite3 unit
    function FetchAllAsJSON(Expanded: boolean; ReturnedRowCount: PPtrInt=nil): RawUTF8;
    /// append all rows content as binary stream
    // - will save the column types and name, then every data row in optimized
    // binary format (faster and smaller than JSON)
    // - you can specify a LIMIT for the data extent (default 0 meaning all data)
    // - generates the format expected by TSQLDBProxyStatement
    function FetchAllToBinary(Dest: TStream; MaxRowCount: cardinal=0;
      DataRowPosition: PCardinalDynArray=nil): cardinal; virtual;
    /// append current row content as binary stream
    // - will save one data row in optimized binary format (if not in Null)
    // - virtual method called by FetchAllToBinary()
    // - follows the format expected by TSQLDBProxyStatement
    procedure ColumnsToBinary(W: TFileBufferWriter;
      Null: pointer; const ColTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypeDynArray); virtual;
    /// low-level access to the Timer used for last DB operation
    property SQLLogTimer: TPrecisionTimer read fSQLLogTimer;
    /// after a call to Prepare(), contains the query text to be passed to the DB
    // - depending on the DB, parameters placeholders are replaced by ?, :1, $1 etc
    // - this SQL is ready to be used in any DB tool, e.g. to check the real 
    // execution plan/timing
    property SQLPrepared: RawUTF8 read fSQLPrepared;
    /// the prepared SQL statement, in its current state
    // - if statement is prepared, then equals SQLPrepared, otherwise, contains
    // the raw SQL property content
    // - used internally by the implementation units, e.g. for errors logging
    property SQLCurrent: RawUTF8 read GetSQLCurrent;
    /// low-level access to the statement cache index, after a call to Prepare()
    // - contains >= 0 if the database supports prepared statement cache 
    //(Oracle, Postgres) and query plan is cached; contains -1 in other cases
    property CacheIndex: integer read fCacheIndex;
  published
    /// the prepared SQL statement, as supplied to Prepare() method
    property SQL: RawUTF8 read fSQL;
    /// the prepared SQL statement, with all '?' changed into the supplied
    // parameter values
    // - such statement query plan usually differ from a real execution plan
    // for prepared statements with parameters - see SQLPrepared property instead
    property SQLWithInlinedParams: RawUTF8 read GetSQLWithInlinedParams;
    /// the current row after Execute/Step call, corresponding to Column*() methods
    // - contains 0 before initial Step call, or a number >=1 during data retrieval
    property CurrentRow: Integer read fCurrentRow;
    /// the total number of data rows retrieved by this instance
    // - is not reset when there is no more row of available data (Step returns
    // false), or when Step() is called with SeekFirst=true
    property TotalRowsRetrieved: Integer read fTotalRowsRetrieved;
    /// the associated database connection
    property Connection: TSQLDBConnection read fConnection;
    /// strip last semicolon in query
    // - expectation may vary, depending on the SQL statement and the engine
    // - default is true
    property StripSemicolon: boolean read fStripSemicolon write fStripSemicolon;
  end;

  /// abstract connection created from TSQLDBConnectionProperties
  // - this overridden class will defined an hidden thread ID, to ensure
  // that one connection will be create per thread
  // - e.g. OleDB, ODBC and Oracle connections will inherit from this class
  TSQLDBConnectionThreadSafe = class(TSQLDBConnection)
  protected
    fThreadID: TThreadID;
  end;

  /// threading modes set to TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafe.ThreadingMode
  // - default mode is to use a Thread Pool, i.e. one connection per thread
  // - or you can force to use the main connection
  // - or you can use a shared background thread process (not implemented yet)
  // - last two modes could be used for embedded databases (SQLite3/FireBird),
  // when multiple connections may break stability, consume too much resources
  // and/or decrease performance
  TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafeThreadingMode = (
    tmThreadPool,
    tmMainConnection,
    tmBackgroundThread);

  /// connection properties which will implement an internal Thread-Safe
  // connection pool
  TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafe = class(TSQLDBConnectionProperties)
  protected
    fConnectionPool: TSynObjectListLocked;
    fLatestConnectionRetrievedInPool: integer;
    fThreadingMode: TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafeThreadingMode;
    /// returns -1 if none was defined yet
    function CurrentThreadConnectionIndex: Integer;
    /// overridden method to properly handle multi-thread
    function GetMainConnection: TSQLDBConnection; override;
  public
    /// initialize the properties
    // - this overridden method will initialize the internal per-thread connection pool
    constructor Create(const aServerName, aDatabaseName, aUserID, aPassWord: RawUTF8); override;
    /// release related memory, and all per-thread connections
    destructor Destroy; override;
    /// get a thread-safe connection
    // - this overridden implementation will define a per-thread TSQLDBConnection
    // connection pool, via an internal  pool
    function ThreadSafeConnection: TSQLDBConnection; override;
    /// release all existing connections
    // - this overridden implementation will release all per-thread
    // TSQLDBConnection internal connection pool
    // - warning: no connection shall still be used on the background (e.g. in
    // multi-threaded applications), or some unexpected border effects may occur
    procedure ClearConnectionPool; override;
    /// you can call this method just before a thread is finished to ensure
    // that the associated Connection will be released
    // - could be used e.g. in a try...finally block inside a TThread.Execute
    // overridden method
    // - could be used e.g. to call CoUnInitialize from thread in which
    // CoInitialize was made, for instance via a method defined as such:
    // ! procedure TMyServer.OnHttpThreadTerminate(Sender: TObject);
    // ! begin
    // !   fMyConnectionProps.EndCurrentThread;
    // ! end;
    // - this method shall be called from the thread about to be terminated: e.g.
    // if you call it from the main thread, it may fail to release resources
    // - within the mORMot server, mORMotDB unit will call this method
    // for every terminating thread created for TSQLRestServerNamedPipeResponse
    // or TSQLHttpServer multi-thread process
    procedure EndCurrentThread; virtual;
    /// set this property if you want to disable the per-thread connection pool
    // - to be used e.g. in database embedded mode (SQLite3/FireBird), when
    // multiple connections may break stability and decrease performance
    // - see TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafeThreadingMode for the
    // possible values
    property ThreadingMode: TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafeThreadingMode
      read fThreadingMode write fThreadingMode;
  end;

  /// a structure used to store a standard binding parameter
  // - you can use your own internal representation of parameters
  // (TOleDBStatement use its own TOleDBStatementParam type), but
  // this type can be used to implement a generic parameter
  // - used e.g. by TSQLDBStatementWithParams as a dynamic array
  // (and its inherited TSQLDBOracleStatement)
  // - don't change this structure, since it will be serialized as binary
  // for TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommandExecute
  TSQLDBParam = packed record
    /// storage used for TEXT (ftUTF8) and BLOB (ftBlob) values
    // - ftBlob are stored as RawByteString
    // - ftUTF8 are stored as RawUTF8
    // - sometimes, may be ftInt64 or ftCurrency provided as SQLT_AVC text,
    // or ftDate value converted to SQLT_TIMESTAMP
    VData: RawByteString;
    /// storage used for bound array values
    // - number of items in array is stored in VInt64
    // - values are stored as in SQL (i.e. number, 'quoted string',
    // 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss', null)
    VArray: TRawUTF8DynArray;
    /// the column/parameter Value type
    VType: TSQLDBFieldType;
    /// define if parameter can be retrieved after a stored procedure execution
    VInOut: TSQLDBParamInOutType;
    /// used e.g. by TSQLDBOracleStatement
    VDBType: word;
    /// storage used for ftInt64, ftDouble, ftDate and ftCurrency value
    VInt64: Int64;
  end;

  PSQLDBParam = ^TSQLDBParam;

  /// dynamic array used to store standard binding parameters
  // - used e.g. by TSQLDBStatementWithParams (and its
  // inherited TSQLDBOracleStatement)
  TSQLDBParamDynArray = array of TSQLDBParam;

  /// generic abstract class handling prepared statements with binding
  // - will provide protected fields and methods for handling standard
  // TSQLDBParam parameters
  TSQLDBStatementWithParams = class(TSQLDBStatement)
  protected
    fParams: TSQLDBParamDynArray;
    fParam: TDynArray;
    fParamsArrayCount: integer;
    function CheckParam(Param: Integer; NewType: TSQLDBFieldType;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType): PSQLDBParam; overload;
    function CheckParam(Param: Integer; NewType: TSQLDBFieldType;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType; ArrayCount: integer): PSQLDBParam; overload;
    /// append the inlined value of a given parameter
    // - faster overridden method
    procedure AddParamValueAsText(Param: integer; Dest: TTextWriter;
      MaxCharCount: integer); override;
  public
    /// create a statement instance
    // - this overridden version will initialize the internal fParam* fields
    constructor Create(aConnection: TSQLDBConnection); override;
    /// bind a NULL value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - raise an Exception on any error
    // - some providers (only OleDB during MULTI INSERT statements, so never used
    // in this class) expect the  proper column type to be set in BoundType
    procedure BindNull(Param: Integer; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn;
      BoundType: TSQLDBFieldType=ftNull); override;
    /// bind an integer value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - raise an Exception on any error
    procedure Bind(Param: Integer; Value: Int64;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; override;
    /// bind a double value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - raise an Exception on any error
    procedure Bind(Param: Integer; Value: double;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; override;
    /// bind a TDateTime value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - raise an Exception on any error
    procedure BindDateTime(Param: Integer; Value: TDateTime;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; override;
    /// bind a currency value to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - raise an Exception on any error
    procedure BindCurrency(Param: Integer; Value: currency;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; override;
    /// bind a UTF-8 encoded string to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - raise an Exception on any error
    procedure BindTextU(Param: Integer; const Value: RawUTF8;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; override;
    /// bind a UTF-8 encoded buffer text (#0 ended) to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    procedure BindTextP(Param: Integer; Value: PUTF8Char;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; override;
    /// bind a VCL string to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - raise an Exception on any error
    procedure BindTextS(Param: Integer; const Value: string;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; override;
    /// bind an OLE WideString to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - raise an Exception on any error }
    procedure BindTextW(Param: Integer; const Value: WideString;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; override;
    /// bind a Blob buffer to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - raise an Exception on any error
    procedure BindBlob(Param: Integer; Data: pointer; Size: integer;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; override;
    /// bind a Blob buffer to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - raise an Exception on any error M
    procedure BindBlob(Param: Integer; const Data: RawByteString;
      IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn); overload; override;

    /// bind an array of values to a parameter using OCI bind array feature
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - values are stored as in SQL (i.e. number, 'quoted string',
    // 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss', null)
    // - values are stored as in SQL (i.e. 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss')
    procedure BindArray(Param: Integer; ParamType: TSQLDBFieldType;
      const Values: TRawUTF8DynArray; ValuesCount: integer); overload; override;
    /// bind an array of integer values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - this default implementation will call BindArray() after conversion into
    // RawUTF8 items, stored in TSQLDBParam.VArray
    procedure BindArray(Param: Integer; const Values: array of Int64); overload; override;
    /// bind an array of double values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    // - this default implementation will call BindArray() after conversion into
    // RawUTF8 items, stored in TSQLDBParam.VArray
    procedure BindArray(Param: Integer; const Values: array of double); overload; override;
    /// bind an array of TDateTime values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - values are stored as in SQL (i.e. 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss')
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    // - this default implementation will call BindArray() after conversion into
    // RawUTF8 items, stored in TSQLDBParam.VArray
    procedure BindArrayDateTime(Param: Integer; const Values: array of TDateTime); override;
    /// bind an array of currency values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    // - this default implementation will call BindArray() after conversion into
    // RawUTF8 items, stored in TSQLDBParam.VArray
    procedure BindArrayCurrency(Param: Integer; const Values: array of currency); override;
    /// bind an array of RawUTF8 values to a parameter
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - values are stored as 'quoted string'
    // - this default implementation will raise an exception if the engine
    // does not support array binding
    procedure BindArray(Param: Integer; const Values: array of RawUTF8); overload; override;

    /// start parameter array binding per-row process
    // - BindArray*() methods expect the data to be supplied "verticaly": this
    // method allow-per row binding
    // - call this method, then BindArrayRow() with the corresponding values for
    // one statement row, then Execute to send the query
    procedure BindArrayRowPrepare(const aParamTypes: array of TSQLDBFieldType;
      aExpectedMinimalRowCount: integer=0);
    /// bind a set of parameters for further array binding
    // - supplied parameters shall follow the BindArrayRowPrepare() supplied
    // types (i.e. RawUTF8, Integer/Int64, double);  you can also bind directly
    // a TDateTime value if the corresponding binding has been defined as ftDate
    // by BindArrayRowPrepare()
    procedure BindArrayRow(const aValues: array of const);
    /// bind an array of fields from an existing SQL statement for array binding
    // - supplied Rows columns shall follow the BindArrayRowPrepare() supplied
    // types (i.e. RawUTF8, Integer/Int64, double, date)
    // - can be used e.g. after ColumnsToSQLInsert() method call for fast data
    // conversion between tables
    procedure BindFromRows(Rows: TSQLDBStatement); virtual;

    {$ifndef LVCL}
    /// retrieve the parameter content, after SQL execution
    // - the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
    // - to be used e.g. with stored procedures
    // - this overridden function will retrieve the value stored in the protected
    // fParams[] array: the ExecutePrepared method should have updated its
    // content as exepcted
    function ParamToVariant(Param: Integer; var Value: Variant;
      CheckIsOutParameter: boolean=true): TSQLDBFieldType; override;
    {$endif}

    /// Reset the previous prepared statement
    // - this overridden implementation will just do reset the internal fParams[]
    procedure Reset; override;
    /// Release used memory
    // - this overridden implementation will free the fParams[] members (e.g.
    // VData) but not the parameters themselves
    procedure ReleaseRows; override;
  end;

  /// generic abstract class handling prepared statements with binding
  // and column description
  // - will provide protected fields and methods for handling both TSQLDBParam
  // parameters and standard TSQLDBColumnProperty column description
  TSQLDBStatementWithParamsAndColumns = class(TSQLDBStatementWithParams)
  protected
    fColumns: TSQLDBColumnPropertyDynArray;
    fColumn: TDynArrayHashed;
  public
    /// create a statement instance
    // - this overridden version will initialize the internal fColumn* fields
    constructor Create(aConnection: TSQLDBConnection); override;
    /// retrieve a column name of the current Row
    // - Columns numeration (i.e. Col value) starts with 0
    // - it's up to the implementation to ensure than all column names are unique
    function ColumnName(Col: integer): RawUTF8; override;
    /// returns the Column index of a given Column name
    // - Columns numeration (i.e. Col value) starts with 0
    // - returns -1 if the Column name is not found (via case insensitive search)
    function ColumnIndex(const aColumnName: RawUTF8): integer; override;
    /// the Column type of the current Row
    // - ftCurrency type should be handled specifically, for faster process and
    // avoid any rounding issue, since currency is a standard OleDB type
    // - FieldSize can be set to store the size in chars of a ftUTF8 column
    // (0 means BLOB kind of TEXT column) - this implementation will store
    // fColumns[Col].ColumnValueDBSize if ColumnValueInlined=true
    function ColumnType(Col: integer; FieldSize: PInteger=nil): TSQLDBFieldType; override;
    /// direct access to the columns description
    // - gives more details than the default ColumnType() function
    property Columns: TSQLDBColumnPropertyDynArray read fColumns;
  end;

  /// generic Exception type, as used by the SynDB unit
  ESQLDBException = class(ESynException)
  protected
    fStatement: TSQLDBStatement;
  public
    /// constructor which will use FormatUTF8() instead of Format()
    // - if the first Args[0] is a TSQLDBStatement class instance, the current
    // SQL statement will be part of the exception message
    constructor CreateUTF8(const Format: RawUTF8; const Args: array of const);
  published
    /// associated TSQLDBStatement instance, if supplied as first parameter
    property Statement: TSQLDBStatement read fStatement;
  end;

{$ifdef WITH_PROXY}

  /// exception raised during remote connection process
  ESQLDBRemote = class(ESQLDBException);

  /// structure to embedd all needed parameters to execute a SQL statement
  // - used for cExecute, cExecuteToBinary, cExecuteToJSON and cExecuteToExpandedJSON
  // commands of TSQLDBProxyConnectionProperties.Process()
  // - set by TSQLDBProxyStatement.ParamsToCommand() protected method
  TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommandExecute = packed record
    /// the associated SQL statement
    SQL: RawUTF8;
    /// input parameters
    // - trunked to the exact number of parameters
    Params: TSQLDBParamDynArray;
    /// if input parameters expected BindArray() process
    ArrayCount: integer;
    /// how server side would handle statement execution
    // - fBlobAsNull and fDateWithMS do match ForceBlobAsNull and ForceDateWithMS
    // ISQLDBStatement properties
    // - fNoUpdateCount avoids to call ISQLDBStatement.UpdateCount method, e.g.
    // for performance reasons
    Force: set of (fBlobAsNull, fDateWithMS, fNoUpdateCount);
  end;

  /// implements a proxy-like virtual connection statement to a DB engine
  // - will generate TSQLDBProxyConnection kind of connection
  TSQLDBProxyConnectionPropertiesAbstract = class(TSQLDBConnectionProperties)
  protected
    fHandleConnection: boolean;
    fProtocol: TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocol;
    fCurrentSession: integer;
    fStartTransactionTimeOut: Int64;
    /// abstract process of internal commands
    // - one rough unique method is used, in order to make easier several
    // implementation schemes and reduce data marshalling as much as possible
    // - should raise an exception on error
    // - returns the session ID (if any)
    function Process(Command: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommand;
      const Input; var Output): integer; virtual; abstract;
    /// calls Process(cGetToken) + Process(cGetDBMS)
    // - override this method and set fProtocol before calling inherited
    procedure SetInternalProperties; override;
    /// calls Process(cGetForeignKeys,self,fForeignKeys)
    procedure GetForeignKeys; override;
  public
    /// will notify for proxy disconnection
    destructor Destroy; override;
    /// create a new TSQLDBProxyConnection instance
    // - the caller is responsible of freeing this instance
    function NewConnection: TSQLDBConnection; override;
    /// retrieve the column/field layout of a specified table
    // - calls Process(cGetFields,aTableName,Fields)
    procedure GetFields(const aTableName: RawUTF8; out Fields: TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray); override;
    /// retrieve the advanced indexed information of a specified Table
    // - calls Process(cGetIndexes,aTableName,Indexes)
    procedure GetIndexes(const aTableName: RawUTF8; out Indexes: TSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray); override;
    /// get all table names
    // - this default implementation will use protected SQLGetTableNames virtual
    // - calls Process(cGetTableNames,self,Tables)
    procedure GetTableNames(out Tables: TRawUTF8DynArray); override;
    /// determine if the SQL statement can be cached
    // - always returns false, to force a new fake statement to be created
    function IsCachable(P: PUTF8Char): boolean; override;
  published
    /// Connect and Disconnect won't really connect nor disconnect the
    // remote connection
    // - you can set this property to TRUE if you expect the remote connection
    // by in synch with the remote proxy connection (should not be used in
    // most cases, unless you are sure you have only one single client at a time
    property HandleConnection: boolean read fHandleConnection write fHandleConnection;
    /// milliseconds to way until StartTransaction is allowed by the server
    // - in the current implementation, there should be a single transaction
    // at once on the server side: this is the time to try before reporting
    // an ESQLDBRemote exception failure
    property StartTransactionTimeOut: Int64
      read fStartTransactionTimeOut write fStartTransactionTimeOut;
  end;

  /// implements an abstract proxy-like virtual connection to a DB engine
  // - can be used e.g. for remote access or execution in a background thread
  TSQLDBProxyConnection = class(TSQLDBConnection)
  protected
    fConnected: boolean;
    fProxy: TSQLDBProxyConnectionPropertiesAbstract;
    function GetServerDateTime: TDateTime; override;
  public
    /// connect to a specified database engine
    constructor Create(aProperties: TSQLDBConnectionProperties); override;
    /// connect to the specified database
    procedure Connect; override;
    /// stop connection to the specified database
    procedure Disconnect; override;
    /// return TRUE if Connect has been already successfully called
    function IsConnected: boolean; override;
    /// initialize a new SQL query statement for the given connection
    function NewStatement: TSQLDBStatement; override;
    /// begin a Transaction for this connection
    procedure StartTransaction; override;
    /// commit changes of a Transaction for this connection
    procedure Commit; override;
    /// discard changes of a Transaction for this connection
    procedure Rollback; override;
  end;

  /// implements a proxy-like virtual connection statement to a DB engine
  // - abstract class, with no corresponding kind of connection, but allowing
  // access to the mapped data via Column*() methods
  // - will handle an internal binary buffer when the statement returned rows
  // data, as generated by TSQLDBStatement.FetchAllToBinary()
  TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract = class(TSQLDBStatementWithParamsAndColumns)
  protected
    fDataRowCount: integer;
    fDataRowReaderOrigin, fDataRowReader: PByte;
    fDataRowNullSize: cardinal;
    fDataCurrentRowIndex: integer;
    fDataCurrentRowNullLen: cardinal;
    fDataCurrentRowNull: TByteDynArray;
    fDataCurrentRowValues: array of pointer;
    fDataCurrentRowValuesStart: pointer;
    fDataCurrentRowValuesSize: Cardinal;
    // per-row column type (SQLite3 only) e.g. select coalesce(column,0) from ..
    fDataCurrentRowColTypes: array of TSQLDBFieldType;
    function IntColumnType(Col: integer; out Data: PByte): TSQLDBFieldType;
      {$ifdef HASINLINE}inline;{$endif}
    procedure IntHeaderProcess(Data: PByte; DataLen: integer);
    procedure IntFillDataCurrent(var Reader: PByte; IgnoreColumnDataSize: boolean);
  public
    /// the Column type of the current Row
    function ColumnType(Col: integer; FieldSize: PInteger=nil): TSQLDBFieldType; override;
    /// returns TRUE if the column contains NULL
    function ColumnNull(Col: integer): boolean; override;
    /// return a Column integer value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnInt(Col: integer): Int64; override;
    /// return a Column floating point value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnDouble(Col: integer): double; override;
    /// return a Column floating point value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnDateTime(Col: integer): TDateTime; override;
    /// return a Column currency value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    // - should retrieve directly the 64 bit Currency content, to avoid
    // any rounding/conversion error from floating-point types
    function ColumnCurrency(Col: integer): currency; override;
    /// return a Column UTF-8 encoded text value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnUTF8(Col: integer): RawUTF8; override;
    /// return a Column text value as generic VCL string of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnString(Col: integer): string; override;
    /// return a Column as a blob value of the current Row, first Col is 0
    function ColumnBlob(Col: integer): RawByteString; override;
    /// return all columns values into JSON content
    procedure ColumnsToJSON(WR: TJSONWriter); override;
    /// direct access to the data buffer of the current row
    // - points to Double/Currency value, or variable-length Int64/UTF8/Blob
    // - points to nil if the column value is NULL
    function ColumnData(Col: integer): pointer;
    /// append current row content as binary stream
    // - will save one data row in optimized binary format (if not in Null)
    // - virtual method called by FetchAllToBinary()
    // - follows the format expected by TSQLDBProxyStatement
    procedure ColumnsToBinary(W: TFileBufferWriter;
      Null: pointer; const ColTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypeDynArray); override;

    /// read-only access to the number of data rows stored
    property DataRowCount: integer read fDataRowCount;
  end;

  /// implements a proxy-like virtual connection statement to a DB engine
  // - is generated by TSQLDBProxyConnection kind of connection
  // - will use an internal binary buffer when the statement returned rows data,
  // as generated by TSQLDBStatement.FetchAllToBinary() or JSON for
  // ExecutePreparedAndFetchAllAsJSON() method (as expected by our ORM)
  TSQLDBProxyStatement = class(TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract)
  protected
    fDataInternalCopy: RawByteString;
    fUpdateCount: integer;
    fForceNoUpdateCount: boolean;
    procedure ParamsToCommand(var Input: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommandExecute);
  public
    /// Execute a SQL statement
    // - for TSQLDBProxyStatement, preparation and execution are processed in
    // one step, when this method is executed - as such, Prepare() won't call
    // the remote process, but will just set fSQL
    // - this overridden implementation will use out optimized binary format
    //  as generated by TSQLDBStatement.FetchAllToBinary(), and not JSON
    procedure ExecutePrepared; override;
    /// execute a prepared SQL statement and return all rows content as a JSON string
    // - JSON data is retrieved with UTF-8 encoding
    // - if Expanded is true, JSON data is an array of objects, for direct use
    // with any Ajax or .NET client:
    // & [ {"col1":val11,"col2":"val12"},{"col1":val21,... ]
    // - if Expanded is false, JSON data is serialized (used in TSQLTableJSON)
    // & { "FieldCount":1,"Values":["col1","col2",val11,"val12",val21,..] }
    // - BLOB field value is saved as Base64, in the '"\uFFF0base64encodedbinary"'
    // format and contains true BLOB data
    // - this overridden implementation will use JSON for transmission, and
    // binary encoding only for parameters (to avoid unneeded conversions, e.g.
    // when called from mORMotDB.pas)
    procedure ExecutePreparedAndFetchAllAsJSON(Expanded: boolean; out JSON: RawUTF8); override;
    /// append all rows content as binary stream
    // - will save the column types and name, then every data row in optimized
    // binary format (faster and smaller than JSON)
    // - you can specify a LIMIT for the data extent (default 0 meaning all data)
    // - generates the format expected by TSQLDBProxyStatement
    // - this overriden method will use the internal data copy of the binary
    // buffer retrieved by ExecutePrepared, so would be almost immediate,
    // and would allow e.g. direct consumption via our TSynSQLStatementDataSet
    // - note that DataRowPosition won't be set by this method: will be done
    // e.g. in TSQLDBProxyStatementRandomAccess.Create
    function FetchAllToBinary(Dest: TStream; MaxRowCount: cardinal=0;
      DataRowPosition: PCardinalDynArray=nil): cardinal; override;
    /// gets a number of updates made by latest executed statement
    // - this overriden method will return the integer value returned by
    // cExecute command
    function UpdateCount: integer; override;
    /// force no UpdateCount method call on server side
    // - may be needed to reduce server load, if this information is not needed
    property ForceNoUpdateCount: boolean read fForceNoUpdateCount write fForceNoUpdateCount;

    /// after a statement has been prepared via Prepare() + ExecutePrepared() or
    //   Execute(), this method must be called one or more times to evaluate it
    function Step(SeekFirst: boolean=false): boolean; override;
  end;

  /// client-side implementation of a remote connection to any SynDB engine
  // - will compute binary compressed messages for the remote processing,
  // ready to be served e.g. over HTTP via our SynDBRemote.pas unit
  // - abstract class which should override its protected ProcessMessage() method
  // e.g. by TSQLDBRemoteConnectionPropertiesTest or
  TSQLDBRemoteConnectionPropertiesAbstract = class(TSQLDBProxyConnectionPropertiesAbstract)
  protected
    /// will build and interpret binary messages to be served with ProcessMessage
    // - would raise an exception in case of error, even on the server side
    function Process(Command: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommand;
      const Input; var Output): integer; override;
    /// abstract method to override for the expected transmission protocol
    // - could raise an exception on transmission error
    procedure ProcessMessage(const Input: RawByteString; out Output: RawByteString);
      virtual; abstract;
  end;

  /// fake proxy class for testing the remote connection to any SynDB engine
  // - resulting overhead due to our binary messaging: unnoticeable :)
  TSQLDBRemoteConnectionPropertiesTest = class(TSQLDBRemoteConnectionPropertiesAbstract)
  protected
    fProps: TSQLDBConnectionProperties;
    // this overriden method will just call fProps.RemoteProcessMessage()
    procedure ProcessMessage(const Input: RawByteString; out Output: RawByteString); override;
  public
    /// create a test redirection to an existing local connection property
    // - you can specify a User/Password credential pair to also test the
    // authentication via TSynAuthentication
    constructor Create(aProps: TSQLDBConnectionProperties;
      const aUserID,aPassword: RawUTF8; aProtocol: TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocolClass); reintroduce;
  end;


  /// implements a virtual statement with direct data access
  // - is generated with no connection, but allows direct random access to any
  // data row retrieved from TSQLDBStatement.FetchAllToBinary() binary data
  // - GotoRow() method allows direct access to a row data via Column*()
  // - is used e.g. by TSynSQLStatementDataSet of SynDBVCL unit
  TSQLDBProxyStatementRandomAccess = class(TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract)
  protected
    fRowData: TCardinalDynArray;
  public
    /// initialize the internal structure from a given memory buffer
    // - by default, ColumnDataSize would be computed from the supplied data,
    // unless you set IgnoreColumnDataSize=true to set the value to 0 (and
    // force e.g. SynDBVCL TSynBinaryDataSet.InternalInitFieldDefs define the
    // field as ftDefaultMemo)
    constructor Create(Data: PByte; DataLen: integer;
      DataRowPosition: PCardinalDynArray=nil; IgnoreColumnDataSize: boolean=false); reintroduce;

    /// Execute a prepared SQL statement
    // - this unexpected overridden method will raise a ESQLDBException
    procedure ExecutePrepared; override;
    /// Change cursor position to the next available row
    // - this unexpected overridden method will raise a ESQLDBException
    function Step(SeekFirst: boolean=false): boolean; override;

    /// change the current data Row
    // - if Index<DataRowCount, returns TRUE and you can access to the data
    // via regular Column*() methods
    // - can optionally raise an ESQLDBException if Index is not correct
    function GotoRow(Index: integer; RaiseExceptionOnWrongIndex: Boolean=false): boolean;
  end;

{$endif WITH_PROXY}


const
  /// TSQLDBFieldType kind of columns which have a fixed width
  FIXEDLENGTH_SQLDBFIELDTYPE = [ftInt64, ftDouble, ftCurrency, ftDate];

  /// conversion matrix from TSQLDBFieldType into variant type
  MAP_FIELDTYPE2VARTYPE: array[TSQLDBFieldType] of Word = (
    varEmpty, varNull, varInt64, varDouble, varCurrency, varDate,
    varSynUnicode, varString);
// ftUnknown, ftNull, ftInt64, ftDouble, ftCurrency, ftDate, ftUTF8, ftBlob


/// function helper logging some column truncation information text
procedure LogTruncatedColumn(const Col: TSQLDBColumnProperty);

/// retrieve a table name without any left schema
// - e.g. TrimLeftSchema('SCHEMA.TABLENAME')='TABLENAME'
function TrimLeftSchema(const TableName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8;

/// replace all '?' in the SQL statement with named parameters like :AA :AB..
// - returns the number of ? parameters found within aSQL
// - won't generate any SQL keyword parameters (e.g. :AS :OF :BY), to be
// compliant with Oracle OCI expectations
// - any ending ';' character is deleted, unless aStripSemicolon is unset
function ReplaceParamsByNames(const aSQL: RawUTF8; var aNewSQL: RawUTF8;
  aStripSemicolon: boolean=true): integer;

/// replace all '?' in the SQL statement with indexed parameters like $1 $2 ...
// - returns the number of ? parameters found within aSQL
// - as used e.g. by PostgreSQL & Oracle (:1 :2) library
// - if AllowSemicolon is false (by default), reject any statement with ;
// (Postgres do not allow ; inside prepared statement); it should be 
// true for Oracle
function ReplaceParamsByNumbers(const aSQL: RawUTF8; var aNewSQL: RawUTF8;
  IndexChar: AnsiChar = '$'; AllowSemicolon: boolean = false): integer;

/// create a JSON array from an array of UTF-8 bound values
// - as generated during array binding, i.e. with quoted strings
// 'one','t"wo' -> '{"one","t\"wo"}'   and  1,2,3 -> '{1,2,3}'
// - as used e.g. by PostgreSQL library
function BoundArrayToJSONArray(const Values: TRawUTF8DynArray): RawUTF8;


{ -------------- native connection interfaces, without OleDB }

type
  /// access to a native library
  // - this generic class is to be used for any native connection using an
  // external library
  // - is used e.g. in SynDBOracle by TSQLDBOracleLib to access the OCI library,
  // or by SynDBODBC to access the ODBC library
  TSQLDBLib = class
  protected
    fHandle: {$ifdef FPC}TLibHandle{$else}HMODULE{$endif};
    fLibraryPath: TFileName;
    /// same as SafeLoadLibrary() but setting fLibraryPath and cwd on Windows
    function TryLoadLibrary(const aLibrary: array of TFileName;
      aRaiseExceptionOnFailure: ESynExceptionClass): boolean; virtual;
  public
    /// release associated memory and linked library
    destructor Destroy; override;
    /// the associated library handle
    property Handle: {$ifdef FPC}TLibHandle{$else}HMODULE{$endif} read fHandle write fHandle;
    /// the loaded library path
    property LibraryPath: TFileName read fLibraryPath;
  end;


{$ifdef EMULATES_TQUERY}

{ -------------- TQuery TField TParam emulation classes and types }

type
  /// generic Exception type raised by the TQuery class
  ESQLQueryException = class(ESynException)
  public
    constructor CreateFromError(aMessage: string; aConnection: TSQLDBConnection);
  end;

  /// generic type used by TQuery / TQueryValue for BLOBs fields
  TBlobData = RawByteString;

  /// represent the use of parameters on queries or stored procedures
  // - same enumeration as with the standard DB unit from VCL
  TParamType = (ptUnknown, ptInput, ptOutput, ptInputOutput, ptResult);

  TQuery = class;

  /// pseudo-class handling a TQuery bound parameter or column value
  // - will mimic both TField and TParam classes as defined in standard DB unit,
  // by pointing both classes types to PQueryValue
  // - usage of an object instead of a class allow faster access via a
  // dynamic array (and our TDynArrayHashed wrapper) for fast property name
  // handling (via name hashing) and pre-allocation
  // - it is based on an internal Variant to store the parameter or column value
  {$ifdef USERECORDWITHMETHODS}TQueryValue = record
    {$else}TQueryValue = object{$endif}
  private
    /// fName should be the first property, i.e. the searched hashed value
    fName: string;
    fValue: Variant;
    fValueBlob: boolean;
    fParamType: TParamType;
    // =-1 if empty, =0 if eof, >=1 if cursor on row data
    fRowIndex: integer;
    fColumnIndex: integer;
    fQuery: TQuery;
    procedure CheckExists;
    procedure CheckValue;
    function GetIsNull: boolean;
    function GetDouble: double;
    function GetString: string;
    function GetAsWideString: SynUnicode;
    function GetCurrency: Currency;
    function GetDateTime: TDateTime;
    function GetVariant: Variant;
    function GetInteger: integer;
    function GetInt64: Int64;
    function GetBlob: TBlobData;
    function GetAsBytes: TBytes;
    function GetBoolean: Boolean;
    procedure SetDouble(const aValue: double);
    procedure SetString(const aValue: string);
    procedure SetAsWideString(const aValue: SynUnicode);
    procedure SetCurrency(const aValue: Currency);
    procedure SetDateTime(const aValue: TDateTime);
    procedure SetVariant(const aValue: Variant);
    procedure SetInteger(const aValue: integer);
    procedure SetInt64(const aValue: Int64);
    procedure SetBlob(const aValue: TBlobData);
    procedure SetAsBytes(const Value: TBytes);
    procedure SetBoolean(const aValue: Boolean);
    procedure SetBound(const aValue: Boolean);
  public
    /// set the column value to null
    procedure Clear;
    /// the associated (field) name
    property FieldName: string read fName;
    /// the associated (parameter) name
    property Name: string read fName;
    /// parameter type for queries or stored procedures
    property ParamType: TParamType read fParamType write fParamType;
    /// returns TRUE if the stored Value is null
    property IsNull: Boolean read GetIsNull;
    /// just do nothing - here for compatibility reasons with Clear + Bound := true
    property Bound: Boolean write SetBound;
    /// access the Value as Integer
    property AsInteger: integer read GetInteger write SetInteger;
    /// access the Value as Int64
    // - note that under Delphi 5, Int64 is not handled: the Variant type
    // only handle integer types, in this Delphi version :(
    property AsInt64: Int64 read GetInt64 write SetInt64;
    /// access the Value as Int64
    // - note that under Delphi 5, Int64 is not handled: the Variant type
    // only handle integer types, in this Delphi version :(
    property AsLargeInt: Int64 read GetInt64 write SetInt64;
    /// access the Value as boolean
    property AsBoolean: Boolean read GetBoolean write SetBoolean;
    /// access the Value as String
    // - used in the VCL world for both TEXT and BLOB content (BLOB content
    // will only work in pre-Unicode Delphi version, i.e. before Delphi 2009)
    property AsString: string read GetString write SetString;
    /// access the Value as an unicode String
    // - will return a WideString before Delphi 2009, and an UnicodeString
    // for Unicode versions of the compiler (i.e. our SynUnicode type)
    property AsWideString: SynUnicode read GetAsWideString write SetAsWideString;
    /// access the BLOB Value as an AnsiString
    // - will work for all Delphi versions, including Unicode versions (i.e.
    // since Delphi 2009)
    // - for a BLOB parameter or column, you should use AsBlob or AsBlob
    // properties instead of AsString (this later won't work after Delphi 2007)
    property AsBlob: TBlobData read GetBlob write SetBlob;
    /// access the BLOB Value as array of byte (TBytes)
     // - will work for all Delphi versions, including Unicode versions (i.e.
    // since Delphi 2009)
    // - for a BLOB parameter or column, you should use AsBlob or AsBlob
    // properties instead of AsString (this later won't work after Delphi 2007)
    property AsBytes: TBytes read GetAsBytes write SetAsBytes;
    /// access the Value as double
    property AsFloat: double read GetDouble write SetDouble;
    /// access the Value as TDateTime
    property AsDateTime: TDateTime read GetDateTime write SetDateTime;
    /// access the Value as TDate
    property AsDate: TDateTime read GetDateTime write SetDateTime;
    /// access the Value as TTime
    property AsTime: TDateTime read GetDateTime write SetDateTime;
    /// access the Value as Currency
    // - avoid any rounding conversion, as with AsFloat
    property AsCurrency: Currency read GetCurrency write SetCurrency;
    /// access the Value as Variant
    property AsVariant: Variant read GetVariant write SetVariant;
  end;

  /// a dynamic array of TQuery bound parameters or column values
  // - TQuery will use TDynArrayHashed for fast search
  TQueryValueDynArray = array of TQueryValue;

  /// pointer to TQuery bound parameter or column value
  PQueryValue = ^TQueryValue;

  /// pointer mapping the VCL DB TField class
  // - to be used e.g. with code using local TField instances in a loop
  TField = PQueryValue;

  /// pointer mapping the VCL DB TParam class
  // - to be used e.g. with code using local TParam instances
  TParam = PQueryValue;

  /// class mapping VCL DB TQuery for direct database process
  // - this class can mimic basic TQuery VCL methods, but won't need any BDE
  // installed, and will be faster for field and parameters access than the
  // standard TDataSet based implementation; in fact, OleDB replaces the BDE
  // or the DBExpress layer, or access directly to the client library
  // (e.g. for TSQLDBOracleConnectionProperties which calls oci.dll)
  // - it is able to run basic queries as such:
  // !  Q := TQuery.Create(aSQLDBConnection);
  // !  try
  // !    Q.SQL.Clear; // optional
  // !    Q.SQL.Add('select * from DOMAIN.TABLE');
  // !    Q.SQL.Add('  WHERE ID_DETAIL=:detail;');
  // !    Q.ParamByName('DETAIL').AsString := '123420020100000430015';
  // !    Q.Open;
  // !    Q.First;    // optional
  // !    while not Q.Eof do begin
  // !      assert(Q.FieldByName('id_detail').AsString='123420020100000430015');
  // !      Q.Next;
  // !    end;
  // !    Q.Close;    // optional
  // !  finally
  // !    Q.Free;
  // !  end;
  // - since there is no underlying TDataSet, you can't have read and write
  // access, or use the visual DB components of the VCL: it's limited to
  // direct emulation of low-level SQL as in the above code, with one-direction
  // retrieval (e.g. the Edit, Post, Append, Cancel, Prior, Locate, Lookup
  // methods do not exist within this class)
  // - use ToDataSet() function from SynDBVCL.pas to create a TDataSet
  // from such a TQuery instance, and link this request to visual DB components
  // - this class is Unicode-ready even before Delphi 2009 (via the TQueryValue
  // AsWideString method), will natively handle Int64/TBytes field or parameter
  // data, and will have less overhead than the standard DB components of the VCL
  // - you should better use TSQLDBStatement instead of this wrapper, but
  // having such code-compatible TQuery replacement could make easier some
  // existing code upgrade (e.g. to avoid deploying the deprecated BDE, generate
  // smaller executable, access any database without paying a big fee,
  // avoid rewriting a lot of existing code lines of a big application...)
  TQuery = class
  protected
    fSQL: TStringList;
    fPrepared: ISQLDBStatement;
    fRowIndex: Integer;
    fConnection: TSQLDBConnection;
    fParams: TQueryValueDynArray;
    fResults: TQueryValueDynArray;
    fResult: TDynArrayHashed;
    fResultCount: integer;
    fParam: TDynArrayHashed;
    fParamCount: Integer;
    fTag: PtrInt;
    function GetIsEmpty: Boolean;
    function GetActive: Boolean;
    function GetFieldCount: integer;
    function GetParamCount: integer;
    function GetField(aIndex: integer): TField;
    function GetParam(aIndex: integer): TParam;
    function GetEof: boolean;
    function GetBof: Boolean;
    function GetRecordCount: integer;
    function GetSQLAsText: string;
    procedure OnSQLChange(Sender: TObject);
    /// prepare and execute the SQL query
    procedure Execute(ExpectResults: Boolean);
  public
    /// initialize a query for the associated database connection
    constructor Create(aConnection: TSQLDBConnection);
    /// release internal memory and statements
    destructor Destroy; override;
    /// a do-nothing method, just available for compatibility purpose
    procedure Prepare;
    /// begin the SQL query, for a SELECT statement
    // - will parse the entered SQL statement, and bind parameters
    // - will then execute the SELECT statement, ready to use First/Eof/Next
    // methods, the returned rows being available via FieldByName methods
    procedure Open;
    /// begin the SQL query, for a non SELECT statement
    // - will parse the entered SQL statement, and bind parameters
    // - the query will be released with a call to Close within this method
    // - will return the number of updated rows (i.e.
    // PreparedSQLDBStatement.UpdateCount)
    procedure ExecSQL;
    /// begin the SQL query, for a non SELECT statement
    // - will parse the entered SQL statement, and bind parameters
    // - the query will be released with a call to Close within this method
    // - this method will return the number of updated rows (i.e.
    // PreparedSQLDBStatement.UpdateCount)
    function ExecSQLAndReturnUpdateCount: integer;
    /// after a successfull Open, will get the first row of results
    procedure First;
    /// after successfull Open and First, go the the next row of results
    procedure Next;
    /// end the SQL query
    // - will release the SQL statement, results and bound parameters
    // - the query should be released with a call to Close before reopen
    procedure Close;
    /// access a SQL statement parameter, entered as :aParamName in the SQL
    // - if the requested parameter do not exist yet in the internal fParams
    // list, AND if CreateIfNotExisting=true, a new TQueryValue instance
    // will be created and registered
    function ParamByName(const aParamName: string; CreateIfNotExisting: boolean=true): TParam;
    /// retrieve a column value from the current opened SQL query row
    // - will raise an ESQLQueryException error in case of error, e.g. if no column
    // name matchs the supplied name
    function FieldByName(const aFieldName: string): TField;
    /// retrieve a column value from the current opened SQL query row
    // - will return nil in case of error, e.g. if no column name matchs the
    // supplied name
    function FindField(const aFieldName: string): TField;
    /// the associated database connection
    property Connection: TSQLDBConnection read fConnection;
    /// the SQL statement to be executed
    // - statement will be prepared and executed via Open or ExecSQL methods
    // - SQL.Clear will force a call to the Close method (i.e. reset the query,
    // just as with the default VCL implementation)
    property SQL: TStringList read fSQL;
    /// the SQL statement with inlined bound parameters
    property SQLAsText: string read GetSQLAsText;
    /// equals true if there is some rows pending
    property Eof: Boolean read GetEof;
    /// equals true if on first row
    property Bof: Boolean read GetBof;
    /// returns 0 if no record was retrievd, 1 if there was some records
    // - not the exact count: just here for compatibility purpose with code
    // like   if aQuery.RecordCount>0 then ...
    property RecordCount: integer read GetRecordCount;
    /// equals true if there is no row returned
    property IsEmpty: Boolean read GetIsEmpty;
    /// equals true if the query is opened
    property Active: Boolean read GetActive;
    /// the number of columns in the current opened SQL query row
    property FieldCount: integer read GetFieldCount;
    /// the number of bound parameters in the current SQL statement
    property ParamCount: integer read GetParamCount;
    /// retrieve a column value from the current opened SQL query row
    // - will return nil in case of error, e.g. out of range index
    property Fields[aIndex: integer]: TField read GetField;
    /// retrieve a  bound parameters in the current SQL statement
    // - will return nil in case of error, e.g. out of range index
    property Params[aIndex: integer]: TParam read GetParam;
    /// non VCL property to access the internal SynDB prepared statement
    // - is nil if the TQuery is not prepared (e.g. after Close)
    property PreparedSQLDBStatement: ISQLDBStatement read fPrepared;
    /// user-customizable number attached to this instance
    // - for compatibility with TComponent
    property Tag: PtrInt read fTag write fTag;
  end;

{$endif EMULATES_TQUERY}

var
  /// the TSynLog class used for logging for all our SynDB related units
  // - you may override it with TSQLLog, if available from mORMot.pas
  // - since not all exceptions are handled specificaly by this unit, you
  // may better use a common TSynLog class for the whole application or module
  SynDBLog: TSynLogClass=TSynLog;



{ -------------- Database specific classes - shared by several SynDB units }

const
  /// the known column data types corresponding to our TSQLDBFieldType types
  // - will be used e.g. for TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLFieldCreate()
  // - see TSQLDBFieldTypeDefinition documentation to find out the mapping
  DB_FIELDS: array[TSQLDBDefinition] of TSQLDBFieldTypeDefinition = (
  // ftUnknown=int32, ftNull=UTF8, ftInt64, ftDouble, ftCurrency, ftDate, ftUTF8, ftBlob

  // dUnknown
  (' INT',' NVARCHAR(%)',' BIGINT',' DOUBLE',' NUMERIC(19,4)',' TIMESTAMP',
   ' CLOB',' BLOB'),

  // dDefault
  (' INT',' NVARCHAR(%)',' BIGINT',' DOUBLE',' NUMERIC(19,4)',' TIMESTAMP',
   ' CLOB',' BLOB'),

  // dOracle
  (' NUMBER(22,0)',' NVARCHAR2(%)',' NUMBER(22,0)',' BINARY_DOUBLE',' NUMBER(19,4)',
   ' DATE',' NCLOB',' BLOB'),
    // NCLOB (National Character Large Object) is an Oracle data type that can hold
    // up to 4 GB of character data. It's similar to a CLOB, but characters are
    // stored in a NLS or multibyte national character set (like NVARCHAR2)

  // dMSSQL
  (' int',' nvarchar(%)',' bigint',' float',' money',' datetime',' nvarchar(max)',
   ' varbinary(max)'),

  // dJet
  (' Long',' VarChar(%)',' Decimal(19,0)',' Double',' Currency',' DateTime',
   ' LongText',' LongBinary'),

  // dMySQL
  (' int',' varchar(%) character set UTF8',' bigint',' double',' decimal(19,4)',
   ' datetime',' mediumtext character set UTF8',' mediumblob'),

  // dSQLite
  (' INTEGER',' TEXT',' INTEGER',' FLOAT',' FLOAT',' TEXT',' TEXT',' BLOB'),

  // dFirebird
  (' INTEGER',' VARCHAR(%) CHARACTER SET UTF8',' BIGINT',' FLOAT',' DECIMAL(18,4)',
   ' TIMESTAMP',' BLOB SUB_TYPE 1 SEGMENT SIZE 2000 CHARACTER SET UTF8',
   ' BLOB SUB_TYPE 0 SEGMENT SIZE 2000'),
   // about BLOB: http://www.ibphoenix.com/resources/documents/general/doc_54

  // dNexusDB
  (' INTEGER',' NVARCHAR(%)',' LARGEINT',' REAL',' MONEY',' DATETIME',' NCLOB',' BLOB'),
    // VARCHAR(%) CODEPAGE 65001 just did not work well with Delphi<2009

  // dPostgreSQL
  (' INTEGER',' TEXT',' BIGINT',' DOUBLE PRECISION',' NUMERIC(19,4)',
   ' TIMESTAMP',' TEXT',' BYTEA'),
    // like SQLite3, we will create TEXT column instead of VARCHAR(%), as stated
    // by http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-character.html

  // dDB2 (for CCSID Unicode tables)
  (' int',' varchar(%)',' bigint',' real',' decimal(19,4)',' timestamp',' clob', ' blob'),
    { note: bigint needs 9.1 and up }

  // dInformix
  (' int',' lvarchar(%)',' bigint',' smallfloat',' decimal(19,4)',
   ' datetime year to fraction(3)',' clob', ' blob')
  );

  /// the known column data types corresponding to our TSQLDBFieldType types
  // - will be used e.g. for TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLFieldCreate()
  // - SQLite3 doesn't expect any field length, neither PostgreSQL, so set to 0
  DB_FIELDSMAX: array[TSQLDBDefinition] of cardinal = (
    1000, 1000, 1333, { =4000/3 since WideChar is up to 3 bytes in UTF-8 }
    4000, 255, 4000, 0, 32760, 32767, 0, 32700, 32700);

  /// the known SQL statement to retrieve the server date and time
  DB_SERVERTIME: array[TSQLDBDefinition] of RawUTF8 = (
    '','', // return local server time by default
    'select sysdate from dual',
    'select GETDATE()',
    '', // Jet is local -> return local time
    'SELECT NOW()',
    '', // SQlite is local -> return local time
    'select current_timestamp from rdb$database',
    'SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP',
    'SELECT LOCALTIMESTAMP',
    'select current timestamp from sysibm.sysdummy1',
    'select CURRENT YEAR TO FRACTION(3) from SYSTABLES where tabid = 1'
  );

const
  /// the known SQL syntax to limit the number of returned rows in a SELECT
  // - Positon indicates if should be included within the WHERE clause,
  // at the beginning of the SQL statement, or at the end of the SQL statement
  // - InsertFmt will replace '%' with the maximum number of lines to be retrieved
  // - used by TSQLDBConnectionProperties.AdaptSQLLimitForEngineList()
  DB_SQLLIMITCLAUSE: array[TSQLDBDefinition] of TSQLDBDefinitionLimitClause  = (
    (Position: posNone;   InsertFmt:nil),                         { dUnknown    }
    (Position: posNone;   InsertFmt:nil),                         { dDefault    }
    (Position: posWhere;  InsertFmt:'rownum<=%'),                 { dOracle     }
    (Position: posSelect; InsertFmt:'top(%) '),                   { dMSSQL      }
    (Position: posSelect; InsertFmt:'top % '),                    { dJet        }
    (Position: posAfter;  InsertFmt:' limit %'),                  { dMySQL      }
    (Position: posAfter;  InsertFmt:' limit %'),                  { dSQLite     }
    (Position: posSelect; InsertFmt:'first % '),                  { dFirebird   }
    (Position: posSelect; InsertFmt:'top % '),                    { dNexusDB    }
    (Position: posAfter;  InsertFmt:' limit %'),                  { dPostgreSQL }
    (Position: posAfter;  InsertFmt:' fetch first % rows only'),  { dDB2        }
    (Position: posAfter;  InsertFmt:' first % '));                { dInformix   }

  /// the known database engines handling CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS statement
  DB_HANDLECREATEINDEXIFNOTEXISTS = [dSQLite, dPostgreSQL];

  /// the known database engines handling CREATE INDEX on BLOB columns
  // - SQLite3 does not have any issue about indexing any column
  // - PostgreSQL is able to index TEXT columns, which are some kind of CLOB
  DB_HANDLEINDEXONBLOBS = [dSQLite,dPostgreSQL];

  /// where the DESC clause shall be used for a CREATE INDEX statement
  // - only identified syntax exception is for FireBird
  DB_SQLDESENDINGINDEXPOS: array[TSQLDBDefinition] of
    (posWithColumn, posGlobalBefore) = (
    posWithColumn, posWithColumn, posWithColumn, posWithColumn, posWithColumn,
    posWithColumn, posWithColumn, posGlobalBefore, posWithColumn, posWithColumn,
    posWithColumn, posWithColumn);

  /// the SQL text corresponding to the identified WHERE operators for a SELECT
  DB_SQLOPERATOR: array[opEqualTo..opLike] of RawUTF8 = (
    '=','<>','<','<=','>','>=',' in ',' is null',' is not null',' like ');


/// retrieve the text of a given Database SQL dialect enumeration
// - see also TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetDBMSName() method
function ToText(DBMS: TSQLDBDefinition): PShortString; overload;

/// retrieve the text of a given Database field type enumeration
// - see also TSQLDBFieldTypeToString() function
function ToText(Field: TSQLDBFieldType): PShortString; overload;

/// retrieve the ready-to-be displayed text of a given Database field
// type enumeration
function TSQLDBFieldTypeToString(aType: TSQLDBFieldType): TShort16;

{$ifdef WITH_PROXY}
/// retrieve the ready-to-be displayed text of proxy commands implemented by
// TSQLDBProxyConnectionProperties.Process()
function ToText(cmd: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommand): PShortString; overload;
{$endif WITH_PROXY}


implementation

function ToText(DBMS: TSQLDBDefinition): PShortString;
begin
  result := GetEnumName(TypeInfo(TSQLDBDefinition),ord(DBMS));
end;

function ToText(Field: TSQLDBFieldType): PShortString;
begin
  result := GetEnumName(TypeInfo(TSQLDBFieldType),ord(Field));
end;

{$ifdef WITH_PROXY}
function ToText(cmd: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommand): PShortString;
begin
  result := GetEnumName(TypeInfo(TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommand),ord(cmd));
end;
{$endif}

function TSQLDBFieldTypeToString(aType: TSQLDBFieldType): TShort16;
begin
  if aType<=high(aType) then
    result := TrimLeftLowerCaseToShort(ToText(aType)) else
    FormatShort16('#%',[ord(aType)],result);
end;


{$ifdef EMULATES_TQUERY}

{ ESQLQueryException }

constructor ESQLQueryException.CreateFromError(aMessage: string; aConnection: TSQLDBConnection);
begin
  if aMessage='' then
    aMessage := 'Error';
  if (aConnection=nil) or (aConnection.fErrorMessage='') then
    Create(aMessage) else
  if aConnection.fErrorException=nil then
    CreateUTF8('% [%]',[aMessage,aConnection.fErrorMessage]) else
    CreateUTF8('% as % with message [%]',
      [aMessage,aConnection.fErrorException,aConnection.fErrorMessage]);
end;

{ TQueryValue }

procedure TQueryValue.CheckExists;
begin
  if @self=nil then
    raise ESQLQueryException.Create('Parameter/Field not existing');
end;

procedure TQueryValue.CheckValue;
begin
  CheckExists;
  if fQuery=nil then
    exit; // Params already have updated value
  if fQuery.fRowIndex<=0 then // =-1 if empty, =0 if eof, >=1 if row data
    SetVariantNull(fValue) else
  if fRowIndex<>fQuery.fRowIndex then begin // get column value once per row
    fRowIndex := fQuery.fRowIndex;
    fQuery.fPrepared.ColumnToVariant(fColumnIndex,fValue);
  end;
end;

// in code below, most of the work should have been done by the Variants unit :)
// but since Delphi 5 does not handle varInt64 type, we had do handle it :(
// in all cases, our version should speed up process a little bit ;)

procedure TQueryValue.Clear;
begin
  SetVariantNull(fValue);
end;

function TQueryValue.GetAsBytes: TBytes;
var tmp: TBlobData;
begin
  CheckValue;
  VariantToRawByteString(fValue,tmp);
  RawByteStringToBytes(tmp,result);
end;

function TQueryValue.GetAsWideString: SynUnicode;
begin
  CheckValue;
  with TVarData(fValue) do
  case VType of
    varNull:     result := '';
    varInt64:    UTF8ToSynUnicode(Int64ToUtf8(VInt64),result);
    varString:   UTF8ToSynUnicode(RawUTF8(VAny),result);
    {$ifdef HASVARUSTRING}
    varUString:  result := UnicodeString(VAny);
    {$endif}
  else result := SynUnicode(fValue);
  end;
end;

function TQueryValue.GetBlob: TBlobData;
begin
  CheckValue;
  VariantToRawByteString(fValue,result);
end;

function TQueryValue.GetBoolean: Boolean;
begin
  Result := GetInt64<>0;
end;

function TQueryValue.GetCurrency: Currency;
begin
  CheckValue;
  with TVarData(fValue) do
  case VType of
    varNull:     result := 0;
    varInteger:  result := VInteger;
    varInt64:    result := VInt64;
    varCurrency: result := VCurrency;
    varDouble, varDate: result := VDouble;
    else result := fValue;
  end;
end;

function TQueryValue.GetDateTime: TDateTime;
begin
  CheckValue;
  with TVarData(fValue) do
  case VType of
    varString:     result := Iso8601ToDateTime(RawUTF8(VAny));
    varSynUnicode: result := Iso8601ToDateTime(SynUnicodeToUtf8(SynUnicode(VAny)));
  else result := GetDouble;
  end;
end;

function TQueryValue.GetDouble: double;
begin
  CheckValue;
  with TVarData(fValue) do
  case VType of
    varNull:     result := 0;
    varInteger:  result := VInteger;
    varInt64:    result := VInt64;
    varCurrency: result := VCurrency;
    varDouble, varDate: result := VDouble;
    else result := fValue;
  end;
end;

function TQueryValue.GetInt64: Int64;
begin
  CheckValue;
  with TVarData(fValue) do
  case VType of
    varNull:     result := 0;
    varInteger:  result := VInteger;
    varInt64:    result := VInt64;
    varCurrency: result := trunc(VCurrency);
    varDouble, varDate: result := trunc(VDouble);
    else result := {$ifdef DELPHI5OROLDER}integer{$endif}(fValue);
  end;
end;

function TQueryValue.GetInteger: integer;
begin
  CheckValue;
  with TVarData(fValue) do
  case VType of
    varNull:     result := 0;
    varInteger:  result := VInteger;
    varInt64:    result := VInt64;
    varCurrency: result := trunc(VCurrency);
    varDouble, varDate:   result := trunc(VDouble);
    else result := fValue;
  end;
end;

function TQueryValue.GetIsNull: boolean;
begin
  CheckValue;
  result := TVarData(fValue).VType=varNull;
end;

function TQueryValue.GetString: string;
begin
  CheckValue;
  with TVarData(fValue) do
  case VType of
    varNull:     result := '';
    varInteger:  result := IntToString(VInteger);
    varInt64:    result := IntToString(VInt64);
    varCurrency: result := Curr64ToString(VInt64);
    varDouble:   result := DoubleToString(VDouble);
    varDate:     result := Ansi7ToString(DateTimeToIso8601Text(VDate,' '));
    varString:   result := UTF8ToString(RawUTF8(VAny));
    {$ifdef HASVARUSTRING}
    varUString:  result := string(UnicodeString(VAny));
    {$endif HASVARUSTRING}
    varOleStr:   result := string(WideString(VAny));
    else result := fValue;
  end;
end;

function TQueryValue.GetVariant: Variant;
begin
  CheckValue;
  {$ifdef DELPHI5OROLDER}
  with TVarData(fValue) do // Delphi 5 need conversion to float to avoid overflow
  if VType=varInt64 then
    if (VInt64<low(Integer)) or (VInt64>high(Integer)) then
      result := VInt64*1.0 else
      result := integer(VInt64) else
  {$endif}
    result := fValue;
end;

procedure TQueryValue.SetAsBytes(const Value: TBytes);
begin
  CheckExists;
  RawByteStringToVariant(pointer(Value),length(Value),fValue);
  fValueBlob := true;
end;

procedure TQueryValue.SetAsWideString(const aValue: SynUnicode);
begin
  CheckExists;
  fValue := aValue;
end;

procedure TQueryValue.SetBlob(const aValue: TBlobData);
begin
  CheckExists;
  RawByteStringToVariant(aValue,fValue);
  fValueBlob := true;
end;

procedure TQueryValue.SetBoolean(const aValue: Boolean);
begin
  CheckExists;
  fValue := ord(aValue); // store 0/1 in the DB, not 0/65535
end;

procedure TQueryValue.SetBound(const aValue: Boolean);
begin
  ; // just do nothing
end;

procedure TQueryValue.SetCurrency(const aValue: Currency);
begin
  CheckExists;
  fValue := aValue;
end;

procedure TQueryValue.SetDateTime(const aValue: TDateTime);
begin
  CheckExists;
  fValue := aValue;
end;

procedure TQueryValue.SetDouble(const aValue: double);
begin
  CheckExists;
  fValue := aValue;
end;

procedure TQueryValue.SetInt64(const aValue: Int64);
begin
  CheckExists;
{$ifdef DELPHI5OROLDER}
  with TVarData(fValue) do begin
    VarClear(fValue);
    VType := varInt64;
    VInt64 := aValue;
  end;
{$else}
  fValue := aValue;
{$endif}
end;

procedure TQueryValue.SetInteger(const aValue: integer);
begin
  CheckExists;
  fValue := aValue;
end;

procedure TQueryValue.SetString(const aValue: string);
begin
  CheckExists;
  {$ifdef UNICODE}
  fValue := aValue;
  {$else}
  VarClear(fValue);
  with TVarData(fValue) do begin
    VType := varString;
    VAny := nil; // avoid GPF below when assigning a string variable to VAny
    StringToUTF8(aValue,RawUTF8(VAny));
  end;
  {$endif}
end;

procedure TQueryValue.SetVariant(const aValue: Variant);
begin
  CheckExists;
  fValue := aValue;
end;


{ TQuery }

procedure TQuery.Close;
begin
  try
    if Assigned(fPrepared) then begin
      fPrepared.ReleaseRows;
      fPrepared := nil;
    end;
  finally
    //fSQL.Clear; // original TQuery expect SQL content to be preserved
    fParam.Clear;
    fParam.ReHash; // ensure no GPF if reOpen
    fResult.Clear;
    fResult.ReHash; // ensure no GPF if reOpen
    fRowIndex := -1; // =-1 if empty
  end;
end;

constructor TQuery.Create(aConnection: TSQLDBConnection);
begin
  inherited Create;
  fConnection := aConnection;
  fSQL := TStringList.Create;
  fSQL.OnChange := OnSQLChange;
  fParam.InitSpecific(TypeInfo(TQueryValueDynArray),fParams,djString,@fParamCount,true);
  fResult.InitSpecific(TypeInfo(TQueryValueDynArray),fResults,djString,@fResultCount,true);
end;

destructor TQuery.Destroy;
begin
  try
    Close;
  finally
    fSQL.Free;
    inherited;
  end;
end;

procedure TQuery.Prepare;
begin
  // just available for compatibility purpose
end;

procedure TQuery.ExecSQL;
begin
  Execute(false);
  Close;
end;

function TQuery.ExecSQLAndReturnUpdateCount: integer;
begin
  Execute(false);
  result := fPrepared.UpdateCount;
  Close;
end;

function TQuery.FieldByName(const aFieldName: string): PQueryValue;
var i: integer;
begin
  if self=nil then
    result := nil else begin
    i := fResult.FindHashed(aFieldName);
    if i<0 then
      raise ESQLQueryException.CreateUTF8(
        '%.FieldByName("%"): unknown field name',[self,aFieldName]) else
      result := @fResults[i];
  end;
end;

function TQuery.FindField(const aFieldName: string): TField;
var i: integer;
begin
  result := nil;
  if (self=nil) or (fRowIndex<=0) then // -1=empty, 0=eof, >=1 if row data
    exit;
  i := fResult.FindHashed(aFieldName);
  if i>=0 then
    result := @fResults[i];
end;

procedure TQuery.First;
begin
  if (self=nil) or (fPrepared=nil) then
    raise ESQLQueryException.Create('First: Invalid call');
  if fRowIndex<>1 then // perform only if cursor not already on first data row
    if fPrepared.Step(true) then
      // cursor sucessfully set to 1st row
      fRowIndex := 1 else
      // no row is available, or unable to seek first row -> empty result
      fRowIndex := -1; // =-1 if empty, =0 if eof, >=1 if cursor on row data
end;

function TQuery.GetEof: boolean;
begin
  result := (Self=nil) or (fRowIndex<=0);
end;

function TQuery.GetRecordCount: integer;
begin
  if IsEmpty then
    result := 0 else
    result := 1;
end;

function TQuery.GetBof: Boolean;
begin
  result := (Self<>nil) and (fRowIndex=1);
end;

function TQuery.GetIsEmpty: Boolean;
begin
  result := (Self=nil) or (fRowIndex<0); // =-1 if empty, =0 if eof
end;

function TQuery.GetActive: Boolean;
begin
  result := (self<>nil) and (fPrepared<>nil);
end;

function TQuery.GetFieldCount: integer;
begin
  if IsEmpty then
    result := 0 else
    result := fResultCount;
end;

function TQuery.GetParamCount: integer;
begin
  if IsEmpty then
    result := 0 else
    result := fParamCount;
end;

function TQuery.GetField(aIndex: integer): TField;
begin
  if (Self=nil) or (fRowIndex<0) or (cardinal(aIndex)>=cardinal(fResultCount)) then
    result := nil else
    result := @fResults[aIndex];
end;

function TQuery.GetParam(aIndex: integer): TParam;
begin
  if (Self=nil) or (cardinal(aIndex)>=cardinal(fParamCount)) then
    result := nil else
    result := @fParams[aIndex];
end;

function TQuery.GetSQLAsText: string;
begin
  if (self=nil) or (fPrepared=nil) then
    result := '' else
    result := Utf8ToString(fPrepared.Instance.GetSQLWithInlinedParams);
end;

procedure TQuery.OnSQLChange(Sender: TObject);
begin
  if (self<>nil) and (SQL.Count=0) then
    Close; // expected previous behavior
end;

procedure TQuery.Next;
begin
  if (self=nil) or (fPrepared=nil) then
    raise ESQLQueryException.Create('Next: Invalid call');
  Connection.InternalProcess(speActive);
  try
    if fPrepared.Step(false) then
      inc(fRowIndex) else
      // no more row is available
      fRowIndex := 0;
  finally
    Connection.InternalProcess(speNonActive);
  end;
end;

procedure TQuery.Open;
var i, h: integer;
    added: boolean;
    ColumnName: string;
begin
  if fResultCount>0 then
    Close;
  Execute(true);
  for i := 0 to fPrepared.ColumnCount-1 do begin
    ColumnName := UTF8ToString(fPrepared.ColumnName(i));
    h := fResult.FindHashedForAdding(ColumnName,added);
    if not added then
      raise ESQLQueryException.CreateUTF8('Duplicated column name [%]',[ColumnName]);
    with fResults[h] do begin
      fQuery := self;
      fRowIndex := 0;
      fColumnIndex := i;
      fName := ColumnName;
    end;
  end;
  if fResultCount<>fPrepared.ColumnCount then
    raise ESQLQueryException.CreateUTF8('%.Open count %<>%',[self,fResultCount,fPrepared.ColumnCount]);
  First; // always read the first row
end;

function TQuery.ParamByName(const aParamName: string;
  CreateIfNotExisting: boolean): PQueryValue;
var i: integer;
    added: boolean;
begin
  if CreateIfNotExisting then begin
    i := fParam.FindHashedForAdding(aParamName,added);
    result := @fParams[i];
    if added then
      result^.fName := aParamName;
  end else begin
    i := fParam.FindHashed(aParamName);
    if i>=0 then
      result := @fParams[i] else
      result := nil;
  end;
end;

procedure TQuery.Execute(ExpectResults: Boolean);
const
  DB2OLE: array[TParamType] of TSQLDBParamInOutType = (
     paramIn,  paramIn, paramOut, paramInOut,    paramIn);
 // ptUnknown, ptInput, ptOutput, ptInputOutput, ptResult
var req, new, tmp: RawUTF8;
    paramName: string; // just like TQueryValue.Name: string
    P, B: PUTF8Char;
    col, i: Integer;
    cols: TIntegerDynArray;
begin
  if (self=nil) or (fResultCount>0) or
     (fConnection=nil) or (fPrepared<>nil) then
    raise ESQLQueryException.Create('TQuery.Prepare called with no previous Close');
  fRowIndex := -1;
  if fConnection=nil then
    raise ESQLQueryException.Create('No Connection to DB specified');
  req := Trim(StringToUTF8(SQL.Text));
  P := pointer(req);
  if P=nil then
    raise ESQLQueryException.Create('No SQL statement');
  col := 0;
  repeat
    B := P;
    while not (P^ in [':',#0]) do begin
      case P^ of
      '''': begin
        repeat // ignore chars inside ' quotes
          inc(P);
        until (P[0]=#0) or ((P[0]='''')and(P[1]<>''''));
        if P[0]=#0 then break;
        end;
      #1..#31:
        P^ := ' '; // convert #13/#10 into ' '
      end;
      inc(P);
    end;
    FastSetString(tmp,B,P-B);
    if P^=#0 then begin
      new := new+tmp;
      break;
    end;
    new := new+tmp+'?';
    inc(P); // jump ':'
    B := P;
    while tcIdentifier in TEXT_CHARS[P^] do
      inc(P); // go to end of parameter name
    paramName := UTF8DecodeToString(B,P-B);
    i := fParam.FindHashed(paramName);
    if i<0 then
      raise ESQLQueryException.CreateUTF8('Parameter [%] not bound for [%]',[paramName,req]);
    if col=length(cols) then
      SetLength(cols,col+64);
    cols[col] := i;
    inc(col);
  until P^=#0;
  Connection.InternalProcess(speActive);
  try
    fPrepared := Connection.NewStatementPrepared(new,ExpectResults,
      {raiseexc=}false,{allowreconnect=}false);
    if fPrepared=nil then
      try
        if Connection.LastErrorWasAboutConnection then begin
          SynDBLog.Add.Log(sllDB,'TQuery.Execute() now tries to reconnect');
          Connection.Disconnect;
          Connection.Connect;
          fPrepared := Connection.NewStatementPrepared(new,ExpectResults,false,false);
          if fPrepared=nil then
            raise ESQLQueryException.CreateFromError('Unable to reconnect DB',Connection);
        end else
          raise ESQLQueryException.CreateFromError('DB Error',Connection);
      finally
        if fPrepared=nil then
          Connection.InternalProcess(speConnectionLost);
      end;
    for i := 0 to col-1 do
      try
        with fParams[cols[i]] do // the leftmost SQL parameter has an index of 1
          fPrepared.BindVariant(i+1,fValue,fValueBlob,DB2OLE[fParamType]);
      except
        on E: Exception do
          raise ESQLQueryException.CreateUTF8(
            '% [%] when binding value for parameter [%] in [%]',
            [E,E.Message,fParams[cols[i]].fName,req]);
      end;
    fPrepared.ExecutePrepared;
  finally
    Connection.InternalProcess(speNonActive);
  end;
end;

{$endif EMULATES_TQUERY}


{ TSQLDBConnection }

procedure TSQLDBConnection.CheckConnection;
begin
  if self=nil then
    raise ESQLDBException.Create('TSQLDBConnection not created');
  if not Connected then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('% on %/% should be connected',
      [self,Properties.ServerName,Properties.DataBaseName]);
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnection.InternalProcess(Event: TOnSQLDBProcessEvent);
begin
  if (self=nil) or not Assigned(OnProcess) then
    exit;
  case Event of // thread-safe handle of speActive/peNonActive nested calls
  speActive:
    if InterlockedIncrement(fInternalProcessActive)=1 then
      OnProcess(self,Event);
  speNonActive:
    if InterlockedDecrement(fInternalProcessActive)=0 then
      OnProcess(self,Event);
  else
    OnProcess(self,Event);
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnection.Commit;
begin
  CheckConnection;
  if TransactionCount<=0 then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Invalid %.Commit call',[self]);
  dec(fTransactionCount);
  InternalProcess(speCommit);
end;

constructor TSQLDBConnection.Create(aProperties: TSQLDBConnectionProperties);
begin
  fProperties := aProperties;
  if aProperties<>nil then begin
    fOnProcess := aProperties.OnProcess;
    fRollbackOnDisconnect := aProperties.RollbackOnDisconnect;
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnection.Connect;
var i: integer;
begin
  inc(fTotalConnectionCount);
  InternalProcess(speConnected);
  if fTotalConnectionCount>1 then
    InternalProcess(speReconnected);
  if fServerTimestampAtConnection=0 then
    try
      fServerTimestampAtConnection := ServerDateTime;
    except
      fServerTimestampAtConnection := Now;
    end;
  for i := 0 to length(fProperties.ExecuteWhenConnected)-1 do
    with NewStatement do
    try
      Execute(fProperties.ExecuteWhenConnected[i],false);
    finally
      Free;
    end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnection.Disconnect;
var i: PtrInt;
    Obj: PPointerArray;
begin
  InternalProcess(speDisconnected);
  if fCache<>nil then begin
    InternalProcess(speActive);
    try
      Obj := fCache.ObjectPtr;
      if Obj<>nil then
        for i := 0 to fCache.Count-1 do
          TSQLDBStatement(Obj[i]).FRefCount := 0; // force clean release
      FreeAndNil(fCache); // release all cached statements
    finally
      InternalProcess(speNonActive);
    end;
  end;
  if InTransaction then
    try
      if RollbackOnDisconnect then begin
        fTransactionCount := 1; // flush transaction nesting level
        Rollback;
      end;
    finally
      fTransactionCount := 0; // flush transaction nesting level
    end;
end;

destructor TSQLDBConnection.Destroy;
begin
  try
    Disconnect;
  except
    on E: Exception do
      SynDBLog.Add.Log(sllError,E);
  end;
  inherited;
end;

function TSQLDBConnection.IsOutdated(tix: Int64): boolean;
begin
  result := false;
  if (self=nil) or (fProperties.fConnectionTimeOutTicks=0) then
    exit;
  if fLastAccessTicks<0 then begin // was forced by ClearConnectionPool
    result := true;
    exit;
  end;
  if (fLastAccessTicks=0) or (tix-fLastAccessTicks<fProperties.fConnectionTimeOutTicks) then
    // brand new connection, or active enough connection
    fLastAccessTicks := tix else
    // notify connection is clearly outdated
    result := true;
end;

function TSQLDBConnection.GetInTransaction: boolean;
begin
  result := TransactionCount>0;
end;

function TSQLDBConnection.GetServerTimestamp: TTimeLog;
begin
  PTimeLogBits(@result)^.From(GetServerDateTime);
end;

function TSQLDBConnection.GetServerDateTime: TDateTime;
var Current: TDateTime;
begin
  Current := NowUTC; // so won't conflict with any potential time zone change
  if (fServerTimestampOffset=0) and
     (fProperties.fSQLGetServerTimestamp<>'') then begin
    with fProperties do
      with Execute(fSQLGetServerTimestamp,[]) do
        if Step then
        fServerTimestampOffset := ColumnDateTime(0)-Current;
    if fServerTimestampOffset=0 then
      fServerTimestampOffset := 0.000001; // request server only once
  end;
  result := Current+fServerTimestampOffset;
end;

function TSQLDBConnection.GetLastErrorWasAboutConnection: boolean;
begin
  result := (self<>nil) and (Properties<>nil) and (fErrorMessage<>'') and
    Properties.ExceptionIsAboutConnection(fErrorException,fErrorMessage);
end;

function TSQLDBConnection.NewStatementPrepared(const aSQL: RawUTF8;
  ExpectResults, RaiseExceptionOnError, AllowReconnect: Boolean): ISQLDBStatement;
var Stmt: TSQLDBStatement;
    ToCache: boolean;
    ndx,altern: integer;
    cachedSQL: RawUTF8;

  procedure TryPrepare(doraise: boolean);
  var Stmt: TSQLDBStatement;
  begin
    Stmt := nil;
    try
      InternalProcess(speActive);
      try
        Stmt := NewStatement;
        Stmt.Prepare(aSQL,ExpectResults);
        if ToCache then begin
          if fCache=nil then
            fCache := TRawUTF8List.Create([fObjectsOwned,fNoDuplicate,fCaseSensitive]);
          if fCache.AddObject(cachedSQL,Stmt)>=0 then
            Stmt._AddRef else // will be owned by fCache.Objects[]
            SynDBLog.Add.Log(sllWarning,'NewStatementPrepared: unexpected '+
              'cache duplicate for %',[Stmt.SQLWithInlinedParams],self);
        end;
        result := Stmt;
      finally
        InternalProcess(speNonActive);
      end;
    except
      on E: Exception do begin
        {$ifndef SYNDB_SILENCE}
        with SynDBLog.Add do
          if [sllSQL,sllDB,sllException,sllError]*Family.Level<>[] then
            LogLines(sllSQL,pointer(Stmt.SQLWithInlinedParams),self,'--');
        {$endif}
        Stmt.Free;
        result := nil;
        StringToUTF8(E.Message,fErrorMessage);
        fErrorException := PPointer(E)^;
        if doraise then
          raise;
      end;
    end;
  end;
begin
  result := nil;
  fErrorMessage := '';
  fErrorException := nil;
  if length(aSQL)<5 then
    exit;
  // first check if could be retrieved from cache
  cachedSQL := aSQL;
  ToCache := fProperties.IsCachable(Pointer(aSQL));
  if ToCache and (fCache<>nil) then begin
    ndx := fCache.IndexOf(cachedSQL);
    if ndx>=0 then begin
      Stmt := fCache.Objects[ndx];
      if Stmt.RefCount=1 then begin // ensure statement is not currently in use
        result := Stmt; // acquire the statement
        Stmt.Reset;
        exit;
      end else begin // in use -> create cached alternatives
        ToCache := false; // if all slots are used, won't cache this statement
        if fProperties.StatementCacheReplicates = 0 then
          SynDBLog.Add.Log(sllWarning, 'NewStatementPrepared: cached statement still in use ' +
            '-> you should release ISQLDBStatement ASAP [%]',[cachedSQL],self) else
          for altern := 1 to fProperties.StatementCacheReplicates do begin
            cachedSQL := aSQL+RawUTF8(AnsiChar(altern)); // safe SQL duplicate
            ndx := fCache.IndexOf(cachedSQL);
            if ndx>=0 then begin
              Stmt := fCache.Objects[ndx];
              if Stmt.RefCount=1 then begin
                result := Stmt;
                Stmt.Reset;
                exit;
              end;
            end else begin
              ToCache := true; // cache the statement in this void slot
              break;
            end;
          end;
      end;
    end;
  end;
  // not in cache (or not cachable) -> prepare now
  if fProperties.ReconnectAfterConnectionError and AllowReconnect then begin
    TryPrepare({doraise=}false);
    if result<>nil then
      exit; // success
    if LastErrorWasAboutConnection then
    try
      SynDBLog.Add.Log(sllDB, 'NewStatementPrepared: reconnect after %',[fErrorException],self);
      Disconnect;
      Connect;
      TryPrepare(RaiseExceptionOnError);
      if result=nil then begin
        SynDBLog.Add.Log(sllDB, 'NewStatementPrepared: unable to reconnect',self);
        InternalProcess(speConnectionLost);
      end;
    except
      if RaiseExceptionOnError then
        raise else
        result := nil;
    end
    else if RaiseExceptionOnError and (fErrorException<>nil) then
      // propagate error not related to connection (e.g. SQL syntax error)
      raise fErrorException.Create(UTF8ToString(fErrorMessage));
  end else
    // regular preparation, with no connection error interception
    TryPrepare(RaiseExceptionOnError);
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnection.Rollback;
begin
  CheckConnection;
  if TransactionCount<=0 then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Invalid %.Rollback call',[self]);
  dec(fTransactionCount);
  InternalProcess(speRollback);
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnection.StartTransaction;
begin
  CheckConnection;
  inc(fTransactionCount);
  InternalProcess(speStartTransaction);
end;

function TSQLDBConnection.NewTableFromRows(const TableName: RawUTF8;
  Rows: TSQLDBStatement; WithinTransaction: boolean;
  ColumnForcedTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypeDynArray): integer;
var Fields: TSQLDBColumnCreateDynArray;
    aTableName, SQL: RawUTF8;
    Tables: TRawUTF8DynArray;
    Ins: TSQLDBStatement;
    i,n: integer;
begin
  result := 0;
  if (self=nil) or (Rows=nil) or (Rows.ColumnCount=0) then
    exit;
  aTableName := Properties.SQLTableName(TableName);
  if WithinTransaction then
    StartTransaction; // MUCH faster within a transaction
  try
    Ins := nil;
   InternalProcess(speActive);
    try
      while Rows.Step do begin
        // init when first row of data is available
        if Ins=nil then begin
          SQL := Rows.ColumnsToSQLInsert(aTableName,Fields);
          n := length(Fields);
          if Length(ColumnForcedTypes)<>n then begin
            SetLength(ColumnForcedTypes,n);
            for i := 0 to n-1 do
            case Fields[i].DBType of
            ftUnknown: ColumnForcedTypes[i] := ftInt64;
            ftNull:    ColumnForcedTypes[i] := ftBlob; // assume NULL is a BLOB
            else ColumnForcedTypes[i] := Fields[i].DBType;
            end;
          end;
          Properties.GetTableNames(Tables);
          if FindRawUTF8(Tables,TableName,false)<0 then
            with Properties do
              ExecuteNoResult(SQLCreate(aTableName,Fields,false),[]);
          Ins := NewStatement;
          Ins.Prepare(SQL,false);
        end;
        // write row data
        Ins.BindFromRows(ColumnForcedTypes,Rows);
        Ins.ExecutePrepared;
        Ins.Reset;
        inc(result);
      end;
      Rows.ReleaseRows;
      if WithinTransaction then
        Commit;
    finally
      Ins.Free;
      InternalProcess(speNonActive);
    end;
  except
    on Exception do begin
      if WithinTransaction then
        Rollback;
      raise;
    end;
  end;
end;

{$ifdef WITH_PROXY}

const
  REMOTE_MAGIC = 1;

type
  TRemoteMessageHeader = packed record
    Magic: byte;
    SessionID: integer;
    Command: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommand;
  end;
  PRemoteMessageHeader = ^TRemoteMessageHeader;

constructor TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocol.Create(aAuthenticate: TSynAuthenticationAbstract);
begin
  fAuthenticate := aAuthenticate;
  fTransactionRetryTimeout := 100;
  fTransactionActiveTimeout := 120000; // after 2 minutes, clear any transaction
  InitializeCriticalSection(fLock);
end;

function TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocol.GetAuthenticate: TSynAuthenticationAbstract;
begin
  if self=nil then
    result := nil else
    result := fAuthenticate;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocol.HandleInput(const input: RawByteString): RawByteString;
begin
  result := input;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocol.HandleOutput(const output: RawByteString): RawByteString;
begin
  result := output;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocol.TransactionStarted(connection: TSQLDBConnection;
  sessionID: integer): boolean;
var endTrial: Int64;
begin
  if sessionID=0 then
    raise ESQLDBRemote.Create('Remote transaction expects authentication/session');
  if connection.Properties.InheritsFrom(TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafe) and
     (TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafe(connection.Properties).ThreadingMode=tmThreadPool) then
    raise ESQLDBRemote.CreateUTF8('Remote transaction expects %.ThreadingMode<>tmThreadPool: '+
      'commit/execute/rollback should be in the same thread/connection',[connection.Properties]);
  endTrial := GetTickCount64+fTransactionRetryTimeout;
  repeat
    EnterCriticalSection(fLock);
    try
      if (fTransactionActiveAutoReleaseTicks<>0) and
         (GetTickCount64>fTransactionActiveAutoReleaseTicks) then
        try
          connection.Rollback;
        finally
          fTransactionSessionID := 0;
          fTransactionActiveAutoReleaseTicks := 0;
        end;
      result := fTransactionSessionID=0;
      if result then begin
        fTransactionSessionID := sessionID;
        fTransactionActiveAutoReleaseTicks := GetTickCount64+fTransactionActiveTimeout;
        connection.StartTransaction;
      end;
    finally
      LeaveCriticalSection(fLock);
    end;
    if result or (GetTickCount64>endTrial) then
      break;
    SleepHiRes(1);
  until false;
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocol.TransactionEnd(sessionID: integer);
begin
  if sessionID=0 then
    raise ESQLDBRemote.Create('Remote transaction expects authentication/session');
  EnterCriticalSection(fLock);
  try
    if sessionID<>fTransactionSessionID then
      raise ESQLDBRemote.CreateUTF8('Invalid %.TransactionEnd(%) - expected %',
        [self,sessionID,fTransactionSessionID]);
    fTransactionSessionID := 0;
    fTransactionActiveAutoReleaseTicks := 0;
  finally
    LeaveCriticalSection(fLock);
  end;
end;

destructor TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocol.Destroy;
begin
  fAuthenticate.Free;
  DeleteCriticalSection(fLock);
  inherited Destroy;
end;

function TSQLDBRemoteConnectionProtocol.HandleInput(const input: RawByteString): RawByteString;
begin
  result := Input;
  SymmetricEncrypt(REMOTE_MAGIC,result);
  result := SynLZDecompress(result);
end;

function TSQLDBRemoteConnectionProtocol.HandleOutput(const output: RawByteString): RawByteString;
begin
  result := SynLZCompress(output);
  SymmetricEncrypt(REMOTE_MAGIC,result);
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnection.RemoteProcessMessage(const Input: RawByteString;
  out Output: RawByteString; Protocol: TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocol);
var Stmt: ISQLDBStatement;
    Data: TRawByteStringStream;
    msgInput,msgOutput: RawByteString;
    header: PRemoteMessageHeader;
    O: PAnsiChar;
    i,session: Integer;
    user: RawUTF8;
    InputExecute: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommandExecute;
    ExecuteWithResults: boolean;
    OutputSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray: TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray;
    OutputSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray: TSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray;
    OutputRawUTF8DynArray: TRawUTF8DynArray;
procedure AppendOutput(value: Int64);
var len: integer;
begin
  len := Length(msgOutput);
  SetLength(msgOutput,len+sizeof(Int64));
  PInt64(@PByteArray(msgOutput)[len])^ := value;
end;
begin // follow TSQLDBRemoteConnectionPropertiesAbstract.Process binary layout
  if Protocol=nil then
    raise ESQLDBRemote.CreateUTF8('%.RemoteProcessMessage(protocol=nil)',[self]);
  msgInput := Protocol.HandleInput(Input);
  header := pointer(msgInput);
  if (header=nil) or (header.Magic<>REMOTE_MAGIC) then
    raise ESQLDBRemote.CreateUTF8('Wrong %.RemoteProcessMessage() input',[self]);
  if (Protocol.Authenticate<>nil) and (Protocol.Authenticate.UsersCount>0) and
     not (header.Command in [cGetToken,cGetDBMS]) then
    if not Protocol.Authenticate.SessionExists(header.SessionID) then
      raise ESQLDBRemote.Create('You do not have the right to be here');
  O := pointer(msgInput);
  inc(O,sizeof(header^));
  try
    msgOutput := copy(msgInput,1,SizeOf(header^));
    case header.Command of
    cGetToken:
      AppendOutput(Protocol.Authenticate.CurrentToken);
    cGetDBMS: begin
      session := 0;
      if (Protocol.Authenticate<>nil) and (Protocol.Authenticate.UsersCount>0) then begin
        GetNextItem(PUTF8Char(O),#1,user);
        session := Protocol.Authenticate.CreateSession(user,PCardinal(O)^);
        if session=0 then
          raise ESQLDBRemote.Create('Impossible to Open a Session - '+
           'check connection and User/Password');
      end;
      PRemoteMessageHeader(msgOutput)^.SessionID := session;
      msgOutput := msgOutput+AnsiChar(Properties.DBMS);
    end;
    cConnect:
      Connect;
    cDisconnect:
      Disconnect;
    cTryStartTransaction:
      msgOutput := msgOutput+AnsiChar(Protocol.TransactionStarted(self,header.SessionID));
    cCommit: begin
      Protocol.TransactionEnd(header.SessionID);
      Commit;
    end;
    cRollback: begin
      Protocol.TransactionEnd(header.SessionID);
      Rollback;
    end;
    cServerTimestamp:
      AppendOutput(ServerTimestamp);
    cGetFields: begin
      Properties.GetFields(O,OutputSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray);
      msgOutput := msgOutput+DynArraySave(
        OutputSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray,TypeInfo(TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray));
    end;
    cGetIndexes:  begin
      Properties.GetIndexes(O,OutputSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray);
      msgOutput := msgOutput+DynArraySave(
        OutputSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray,TypeInfo(TSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray));
    end;
    cGetTableNames: begin
      Properties.GetTableNames(OutputRawUTF8DynArray);
      msgOutput := msgOutput+DynArraySave(OutputRawUTF8DynArray,TypeInfo(TRawUTF8DynArray));
    end;
    cGetForeignKeys: begin
      Properties.GetForeignKey('',''); // ensure Dest.fForeignKeys exists
      msgOutput := msgOutput+Properties.ForeignKeysData;
    end;
    cExecute, cExecuteToBinary, cExecuteToJSON, cExecuteToExpandedJSON: begin
      RecordLoad(InputExecute,O,TypeInfo(TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommandExecute));
      ExecuteWithResults := header.Command<>cExecute;
      Stmt := NewStatementPrepared(InputExecute.SQL,ExecuteWithResults,true);
      if fBlobAsNull in InputExecute.Force then
        Stmt.ForceBlobAsNull := true;
      if fDateWithMS in InputExecute.Force then
        Stmt.ForceDateWithMS := true;
      for i := 1 to Length(InputExecute.Params) do
      with InputExecute.Params[i-1] do
      if InputExecute.ArrayCount=0 then
        case VType of
          ftNull:     Stmt.BindNull(i,VInOut);
          ftInt64:    Stmt.Bind(i,VInt64,VInOut);
          ftDouble:   Stmt.Bind(i,unaligned(PDouble(@VInt64)^),VInOut);
          ftCurrency: Stmt.Bind(i,PCurrency(@VInt64)^,VInOut);
          ftDate:     Stmt.BindDateTime(i,PDateTime(@VInt64)^,VInOut);
          ftUTF8:     Stmt.BindTextU(i,VData,VInOut);
          ftBlob:     Stmt.BindBlob(i,VData,VInOut);
          else raise ESQLDBRemote.CreateUTF8(
            'Invalid VType=% parameter #% in %.ProcessExec(%)',
            [ord(VType),i,self,ToText(header.Command)^]);
        end else
        Stmt.BindArray(i,VType,VArray,InputExecute.ArrayCount);
      Stmt.ExecutePrepared;
      if ExecuteWithResults then begin
        Data := TRawByteStringStream.Create(msgOutput);
        try
          Data.Seek(0,soEnd); // include header
          case header.Command of
          cExecuteToBinary:
            Stmt.FetchAllToBinary(Data);
          cExecuteToJSON:
            Stmt.FetchAllToJSON(Data,false);
          cExecuteToExpandedJSON:
            Stmt.FetchAllToJSON(Data,true);
          end;
          msgOutput := Data.DataString;
        finally
          Data.Free;
        end;
      end else
        if not (fNoUpdateCount in InputExecute.Force) then
          msgOutput := msgOutput+ToUTF8(Stmt.UpdateCount);
    end;
    cQuit: begin
      if header.SessionID=Protocol.fTransactionSessionID then
        Protocol.TransactionEnd(header.SessionID);
      Protocol.Authenticate.RemoveSession(header.SessionID);
    end;
    else raise ESQLDBRemote.CreateUTF8(
      'Unknown %.RemoteProcessMessage() command %',[self,ord(header.Command)]);
    end;
  except
    on E: Exception do begin
      PRemoteMessageHeader(msgOutput)^.Command := cExceptionRaised;
      msgOutput := msgOutput+StringToUTF8(E.ClassName+#0+E.Message);
    end;
  end;
  Output := Protocol.HandleOutput(msgOutput);
end;

{$endif WITH_PROXY}


{ TSQLDBConnectionProperties }

constructor TSQLDBConnectionProperties.Create(const aServerName, aDatabaseName,
  aUserID, aPassWord: RawUTF8);
var aDBMS: TSQLDBDefinition;
begin
  fServerName := aServerName;
  fDatabaseName := aDatabaseName;
  fUserID := aUserID;
  fPassWord := aPassWord;
  fEngineName := EngineName;
  fRollbackOnDisconnect := true; // enabled by default
  fUseCache := true;
  fLoggedSQLMaxSize := 2048; // log up to 2KB of inlined SQL by default
  fStatementMaxMemory := 512 shl 20; // fetch to JSON/Binary up to 512MB
  SetInternalProperties; // virtual method used to override default parameters
  aDBMS := GetDBMS;
  if aDBMS in [dSQLite, dDB2, dPostgreSQL] then // for SQLDateToIso8601Quoted()
    fDateTimeFirstChar := ' ' else
    fDateTimeFirstChar := 'T';
  if fForcedSchemaName='' then
    case aDBMS of // should make every one life's easier
    dMSSQL:      fForcedSchemaName := 'dbo';
    dPostgreSql: fForcedSchemaName := 'public';
    end;
  if fSQLCreateField[ftUnknown]='' then
    fSQLCreateField := DB_FIELDS[aDBMS];
  if fSQLCreateFieldMax=0 then
    fSQLCreateFieldMax := DB_FIELDSMAX[aDBMS];
  if fSQLGetServerTimestamp='' then
    fSQLGetServerTimestamp := DB_SERVERTIME[aDBMS];
  case aDBMS of
  dMSSQL, dJet: fStoreVoidStringAsNull := true;
  end;
  if byte(fBatchSendingAbilities)=0 then // if not already handled by driver
    case aDBMS of
    dSQlite,dMySQL,dPostgreSQL,dNexusDB,dMSSQL,dDB2, // INSERT with multi VALUES
    //dFirebird,  EXECUTE BLOCK with params is slower (at least for embedded)
    dOracle: begin // Oracle expects weird INSERT ALL INTO ... statement
      fBatchSendingAbilities := [cCreate];
      fOnBatchInsert := MultipleValuesInsert;
      fBatchMaxSentAtOnce := 4096; // MultipleValuesInsert will do chunking
    end;
    dFirebird: begin // will run EXECUTE BLOCK without parameters
      fBatchSendingAbilities := [cCreate];
      fOnBatchInsert := MultipleValuesInsertFirebird;
      fBatchMaxSentAtOnce := 4096; // MultipleValuesInsert will do chunking
    end;
    end;
end;

destructor TSQLDBConnectionProperties.Destroy;
begin
  fMainConnection.Free;
  inherited;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.Execute(const aSQL: RawUTF8;
  const Params: array of const
  {$ifndef LVCL}{$ifndef DELPHI5OROLDER}; RowsVariant: PVariant{$endif}{$endif};
  ForceBlobAsNull: boolean): ISQLDBRows;
var Stmt: ISQLDBStatement;
begin
  Stmt := NewThreadSafeStatementPrepared(aSQL,true,true);
  Stmt.ForceBlobAsNull := ForceBlobAsNull;
  Stmt.Bind(Params);
  Stmt.ExecutePrepared;
  result := Stmt;
  {$ifndef LVCL}
  {$ifndef DELPHI5OROLDER}
  if RowsVariant<>nil then
    if result=nil then
      SetVariantNull(RowsVariant^) else
      RowsVariant^ := result.RowData;
  {$endif}
  {$endif}
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.ExecuteNoResult(const aSQL: RawUTF8;
  const Params: array of const): integer;
var Stmt: ISQLDBStatement;
begin
  Stmt := NewThreadSafeStatementPrepared(aSQL,false,true);
  Stmt.Bind(Params);
  Stmt.ExecutePrepared;
  try
    result := Stmt.UpdateCount;
  except // may occur e.g. for Firebird's CREATE DATABASE
    result := 0;
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.PrepareInlined(const aSQL: RawUTF8; ExpectResults: Boolean): ISQLDBStatement;
var Query: ISQLDBStatement;
    i, maxParam: integer;
    Types: TSQLParamTypeDynArray;
    Nulls: TSQLFieldBits;
    Values: TRawUTF8DynArray;
    GenericSQL: RawUTF8;
begin
  result := nil; // returns nil interface on error
  if self=nil then
    exit;
  // convert inlined :(1234): parameters into Values[] for Bind*() calls
  GenericSQL := ExtractInlineParameters(aSQL,Types,Values,maxParam,Nulls);
  Query := NewThreadSafeStatementPrepared(GenericSQL,ExpectResults,true);
  if Query=nil then
    exit;
  for i := 0 to maxParam-1 do
  if i in Nulls then
    Query.BindNull(i+1) else
    case Types[i] of // returned sftInteger,sftFloat,sftUTF8Text,sftBlob,sftUnknown
      sptInteger:  Query.Bind(i+1,GetInt64(pointer(Values[i])));
      sptFloat:    Query.Bind(i+1,GetExtended(pointer(Values[i])));
      sptText:     Query.BindTextU(i+1,Values[i]);
      sptBlob:     if Values[i]='' then
                     Query.BindNull(i+1) else
                     Query.BindBlob(i+1,pointer(Values[i]),length(Values[i]));
      sptDateTime: Query.BindDateTime(i+1,Iso8601ToDateTime(Values[i]));
      else raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8(
        '%.PrepareInlined: Unrecognized parameter Type[%] = % in [%]',
        [self,i+1,ord(Types[i]),aSQL]);
    end;
  result := Query;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.PrepareInlined(const SQLFormat: RawUTF8;
  const Args: array of const; ExpectResults: Boolean): ISQLDBStatement;
begin
  result := PrepareInlined(FormatUTF8(SQLFormat,Args),ExpectResults);
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.ExecuteInlined(const aSQL: RawUTF8;
  ExpectResults: Boolean): ISQLDBRows;
var Query: ISQLDBStatement;
begin
  result := nil; // returns nil interface on error
  if self=nil then
    exit;
  Query := PrepareInlined(aSQL,ExpectResults);
  if Query=nil then
    exit; // e.g. invalid aSQL
  Query.ExecutePrepared;
  result := Query;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.ExecuteInlined(const SQLFormat: RawUTF8;
  const Args: array of const; ExpectResults: Boolean): ISQLDBRows;
begin
  result := ExecuteInlined(FormatUTF8(SQLFormat,Args),ExpectResults);
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SetConnectionTimeOutMinutes(minutes: cardinal);
begin
  fConnectionTimeOutTicks := minutes*60000; // minutes to ms conversion
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetConnectionTimeOutMinutes: cardinal;
begin
  result := fConnectionTimeOutTicks div 60000;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetMainConnection: TSQLDBConnection;
begin
  if fMainConnection.IsOutdated(GetTickCount64) then
    FreeAndNil(fMainConnection);
  if fMainConnection=nil then
    fMainConnection := NewConnection;
  result := fMainConnection;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.NewConnection: TSQLDBConnection;
begin
  raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.NewConnection',[self]);
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.ThreadSafeConnection: TSQLDBConnection;
begin
  result := MainConnection; // provider should be thread-safe
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.ClearConnectionPool;
begin
  FreeAndNil(fMainConnection);
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.NewThreadSafeStatement: TSQLDBStatement;
begin
  result := ThreadSafeConnection.NewStatement;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.NewThreadSafeStatementPrepared(
  const aSQL: RawUTF8; ExpectResults, RaiseExceptionOnError: Boolean): ISQLDBStatement;
begin
  result := ThreadSafeConnection.NewStatementPrepared(
    aSQL,ExpectResults,RaiseExceptionOnError);
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.NewThreadSafeStatementPrepared(
  const SQLFormat: RawUTF8; const Args: array of const;
  ExpectResults, RaiseExceptionOnError: Boolean): ISQLDBStatement;
begin
  result := NewThreadSafeStatementPrepared(FormatUTF8(SQLFormat,Args),
    ExpectResults,RaiseExceptionOnError);
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SharedTransaction(SessionID: cardinal;
  action: TSQLDBSharedTransactionAction): TSQLDBConnection;

  procedure SetResultToSameConnection(index: integer);
  begin
    result := ThreadSafeConnection;
    if result<>fSharedTransactions[index].Connection then
      raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8(
        '%.SharedTransaction(sessionID=%) with mixed thread connections: % and %',
          [self,SessionID,result,fSharedTransactions[index].Connection]);
  end;

var i,n: integer;
begin
  n := Length(fSharedTransactions);
  try
    for i := 0 to n-1 do
    if fSharedTransactions[i].SessionID=SessionID then begin
      SetResultToSameConnection(i);
      case action of
      transBegin: // nested StartTransaction
        InterlockedIncrement(fSharedTransactions[i].RefCount);
      else begin  // (nested) commit/rollback
        if InterlockedDecrement(fSharedTransactions[i].RefCount)=0 then begin
          dec(n);
          MoveFast(fSharedTransactions[i+1],fSharedTransactions[i],(n-i)*sizeof(fSharedTransactions[0]));
          SetLength(fSharedTransactions,n);
          case action of
          transCommitWithException, transCommitWithoutException:
            result.Commit;
          transRollback:
            result.Rollback;
          end;
        end;
      end;
      end;
      exit;
    end;
    case action of
    transBegin: begin
      result := ThreadSafeConnection;
      for i := 0 to n-1 do
        if fSharedTransactions[i].Connection=result then
        raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8(
          '%.SharedTransaction(sessionID=%) already started for sessionID=%',
          [self,SessionID,fSharedTransactions[i].SessionID]);
      if not result.Connected then
        result.Connect;
      result.StartTransaction;
      SetLength(fSharedTransactions,n+1);
      fSharedTransactions[n].SessionID := SessionID;
      fSharedTransactions[n].RefCount := 1;
      fSharedTransactions[n].Connection := result;
    end else
      raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8(
        'Unexpected %.SharedTransaction(%,%)',[self,SessionID,ord(action)]);
    end;
  except
    on Exception do begin
      result := nil; // result.StartTransaction/Commit/Rollback failed
      if action=transCommitWithException then
        raise;
    end;
  end;
end;


procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SetInternalProperties;
begin
  // nothing to do yet
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SetSchemaNameToOwner(out Owner: RawUTF8);
begin
  if fForcedSchemaName='' then
    case fDBMS of
    dMySql:    Owner := DatabaseName;
    dInformix: Owner := '';
    else       Owner := UserID;
    end
  else Owner := fForcedSchemaName;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.IsCachable(P: PUTF8Char): boolean;
var NoWhere: Boolean;
begin // cachable if with ? parameter or SELECT without WHERE clause
  if (P<>nil) and fUseCache then begin
    while P^ in [#1..' '] do inc(P);
    NoWhere := IdemPChar(P,'SELECT ');
    if NoWhere or not (IdemPChar(P,'CREATE ') or IdemPChar(P,'ALTER ')) then begin
      result := true;
      while P^<>#0 do begin
        if P^='"' then begin // ignore chars within quotes
          repeat inc(P) until P^ in [#0,'"'];
          if P^=#0 then break;
        end else
        if P^='?' then
          exit else
        if (P^=' ') and IdemPChar(P+1,'WHERE ') then
          NoWhere := false;
        inc(P);
      end;
    end;
    result := NoWhere;
  end else
    result := false;
end;

class function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetFieldDefinition(
  const Column: TSQLDBColumnDefine): RawUTF8;
begin
  with Column do begin
    FormatUTF8('% [%',[ColumnName,ColumnTypeNative],result);
    if (ColumnLength<>0) or (Column.ColumnPrecision<>0) or (Column.ColumnScale<>0) then
      result := FormatUTF8('% % % %]',[result,ColumnLength,ColumnPrecision,ColumnScale]) else
      result := result+']';
    if ColumnIndexed then
      result := result+' *';
  end;
end;

class function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetFieldORMDefinition(
  const Column: TSQLDBColumnDefine): RawUTF8;
begin // 'Name: RawUTF8 index 20 read fName write fName;';
  with Column do begin
    FormatUTF8('property %: %',[ColumnName,SQLDBFIELDTYPE_TO_DELPHITYPE[ColumnType]],result);
    if (ColumnType=ftUTF8) and (ColumnLength>0) then
      result := FormatUTF8('% index %',[result,ColumnLength]);
    result := FormatUTF8('% read f% write f%;',[result,ColumnName,ColumnName]);
  end;
end;

var
  DB_KEYWORDS: array[TSQLDBDefinition] of TRawUTF8DynArray;

class function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.IsSQLKeyword(
  aDB: TSQLDBDefinition; aWord: RawUTF8): boolean;
const
  /// CSV of the known reserved keywords per database engine, in alphabetic order
  DB_KEYWORDS_CSV: array[TSQLDBDefinition] of PUTF8Char = (
  // dUnknown
  '',
  // dDefault = ODBC / SQL-92 keywords (always checked first)
  'absolute,action,ada,add,all,allocate,alter,and,any,are,as,asc,assertion,at,authorization,'+
  'avg,begin,between,bit,bit_length,both,by,cascade,cascaded,case,cast,catalog,char,'+
  'char_length,character,character_length,check,close,coalesce,collate,collation,'+
  'column,commit,connect,connection,constraint,constraints,continue,convert,'+
  'corresponding,count,create,cross,current,current_date,current_time,'+
  'current_timestamp,current_user,cursor,date,day,deallocate,dec,decimal,declare,'+
  'default,deferrable,deferred,delete,desc,describe,descriptor,diagnostics,disconnect,'+
  'distinct,domain,double,drop,else,end,end-exec,escape,except,exception,exec,execute,'+
  'exists,external,extract,false,fetch,first,float,for,foreign,fortran,found,from,full,get,'+
  'global,go,goto,grant,group,having,hour,identity,immediate,in,include,index,indicator,'+
  'initially,inner,input,insensitive,insert,int,integer,intersect,interval,into,is,'+
  'isolation,join,key,language,last,leading,left,level,like,local,lower,match,max,min,minute,'+
  'module,month,n,names,national,natural,nchar,next,no,none,not,null,nullif,numeric,'+
  'octet_length,of,on,only,open,option,or,order,outer,output,overlaps,pad,partial,pascal,'+
  'position,precision,prepare,preserve,primary,prior,privileges,procedure,public,read,'+
  'real,references,relative,restrict,revoke,right,rollback,rows,schema,scroll,second,'+
  'section,select,session,session_user,set,size,smallint,some,space,sql,sqlca,sqlcode,'+
  'sqlerror,sqlstate,sqlwarning,substring,sum,system_user,table,temporary,then,time,'+
  'timestamp,timezone_hour,timezone_minute,to,trailing,transaction,translate,'+
  'translation,trim,true,union,unique,unknown,update,upper,usage,user,using,value,values,'+
  'varchar,varying,view,when,whenever,where,with,work,write,year,zone',
  // dOracle specific keywords (in addition to dDefault)
  'access,audit,cluster,comment,compress,exclusive,file,identified,increment,initial,'+
  'lock,long,maxextents,minus,mode,noaudit,nocompress,nowait,number,offline,online,'+
  'pctfree',
  // dMSSQL specific keywords (in addition to dDefault)
  'admin,after,aggregate,alias,array,asensitive,asymmetric,atomic,backup,before,binary,'+
  'blob,boolean,breadth,break,browse,bulk,call,called,cardinality,checkpoint,class,clob,'+
  'clustered,collect,completion,compute,condition,constructor,contains,containstable,'+
  'corr,covar_pop,covar_samp,cube,cume_dist,current_catalog,'+
  'current_default_transform_group,current_path,current_role,current_schema,'+
  'current_transform_group_for_type,cycle,data,database,dbcc,deny,depth,deref,destroy,'+
  'destructor,deterministic,dictionary,disk,distributed,dump,dynamic,each,element,'+
  'equals,errlvl,every,exit,file,fillfactor,filter,free,freetext,freetexttable,'+
  'fulltexttable,function,fusion,general,grouping,hold,holdlock,host,identity_insert,'+
  'identitycol,if,ignore,initialize,inout,intersection,iterate,kill,large,lateral,less,'+
  'like_regex,limit,lineno,ln,load,localtime,localtimestamp,locator,map,member,merge,'+
  'method,mod,modifies,modify,multiset,nclob,new,nocheck,nonclustered,normalize,object,'+
  'occurrences_regex,off,offsets,old,opendatasource,openquery,openrowset,openxml,'+
  'operation,ordinality,out,over,overlay,parameter,parameters,partition,path,percent,'+
  'percent_rank,percentile_cont,percentile_disc,pivot,plan,position_regex,postfix,'+
  'prefix,preorder,print,proc,raiserror,range,reads,readtext,reconfigure,recursive,ref,'+
  'referencing,regr_avgx,regr_avgy,regr_count,regr_intercept,regr_r2,regr_slope,'+
  'regr_sxx,regr_sxy,regr_syy,release,replication,restore,result,return,returns,revert,'+
  'role,rollup,routine,row,rowcount,rowguidcol,rule,save,savepoint,scope,search,'+
  'securityaudit,semantickeyphrasetable,semanticsimilaritydetailstable,'+
  'semanticsimilaritytable,sensitive,sequence,sets,setuser,shutdown,similar,specific,'+
  'specifictype,sqlexception,start,state,statement,static,statistics,stddev_pop,'+
  'stddev_samp,structure,submultiset,substring_regex,symmetric,system,tablesample,'+
  'terminate,textsize,than,top,tran,translate_regex,treat,trigger,truncate,try_convert,'+
  'tsequal,uescape,under,unnest,unpivot,updatetext,use,var_pop,var_samp,variable,waitfor,'+
  'while,width_bucket,window,within,within group,without,writetext,xmlagg,'+
  'xmlattributes,xmlbinary,xmlcast,xmlcomment,xmlconcat,xmldocument,xmlelement,'+
  'xmlexists,xmlforest,xmliterate,xmlnamespaces,xmlparse,xmlpi,xmlquery,xmlserialize,'+
  'xmltable,xmltext,xmlvalidate',
  // dJet specific keywords (in addition to dDefault)
  'longtext,memo,money,note,number,oleobject,owneraccess,parameters,percent,pivot,short,'+
  'single,singlefloat,stdev,stdevp,string,tableid,text,top,transform,unsignedbyte,var,'+
  'varbinary,varp,yesno',
  // dMySQL specific keywords (in addition to dDefault)
  'accessible,analyze,asensitive,auto_increment,before,bigint,binary,blob,call,change,'+
  'condition,database,databases,day_hour,day_microsecond,day_minute,day_second,'+
  'delayed,deterministic,distinctrow,div,dual,each,elseif,enclosed,enum,escaped,exit,'+
  'explain,float4,float8,force,fulltext,general,high_priority,hour_microsecond,'+
  'hour_minute,hour_second,if,ignore,ignore_server_ids,infile,inout,int1,int2,int3,int4,'+
  'int8,iterate,keys,kill,leave,limit,linear,linear,lines,load,localtime,localtimestamp,'+
  'lock,long,longblob,longtext,loop,low_priority,master_heartbeat_period,'+
  'master_ssl_verify_server_cert,master_ssl_verify_server_cert,maxvalue,'+
  'mediumblob,mediumint,mediumtext,middleint,minute_microsecond,minute_second,mod,'+
  'modifies,no_write_to_binlog,optimize,optionally,out,outfile,purge,range,range,'+
  'read_only,read_only,read_write,read_write,reads,regexp,release,rename,repeat,replace,'+
  'require,resignal signal,return,rlike,schemas,second_microsecond,sensitive,'+
  'separator,show,slow,spatial,specific,sql_big_result,sql_calc_found_rows,'+
  'sql_small_result,sqlexception,ssl,starting,straight_join,terminated,text,tinyblob,'+
  'tinyint,tinytext,trigger,undo,unlock,unsigned,use,utc_date,utc_time,utc_timestamp,'+
  'varbinary,varcharacter,while,x509,xor,year_month,zerofillaccessible',
  // dSQLite keywords (dDefault is not added to this list)
  'abort,after,and,attach,before,cluster,conflict,copy,database,delete,delimiters,detach,'+
  'each,explain,fail,from,glob,ignore,insert,instead,isnull,limit,not,notnull,offset,or,'+
  'pragma,raise,replace,row,select,statement,temp,trigger,vacuum,where',
  // dFirebird specific keywords (in addition to dDefault)
  'active,after,ascending,base_name,before,blob,cache,check_point_length,computed,'+
  'conditional,containing,cstring,currency,database,debug,descending,deterministic,do,'+
  'entry_point,exit,file,filter,function,gdscode,gen_id,generator,'+
  'group_commit_wait_time,if,inactive,input_type,log_buffer_size,logfile,manual,'+
  'maximum_segment,merge,message,module_name,num_log_buffers,output_type,over,'+
  'overflow,page,page_size,pages,parameter,parent,password,plan,post_event,protected,'+
  'raw_partitions,rdb$db_key,record_version,reserv,reserving,retain,return,'+
  'returning_values,returns,segment,shadow,shared,singular,snapshot,sort,stability,'+
  'start,starting,starts,statistics,sub_type,suspend,trigger,type,variable,wait,while',
  // dNexusDB specific keywords (in addition to dDefault)
  'abs,achar,assert,astring,autoinc,blob,block,blocksize,bool,boolean,byte,bytearray,'+
  'ceiling,chr,datetime,dword,empty,exp,floor,grow,growsize,ignore,image,initial,'+
  'initialsize,kana,largeint,locale,log,money,nullstring,nvarchar,percent,power,rand,'+
  'round,shortint,sort,string,symbols,text,tinyint,top,type,use,width,word',
  // dPostgreSQL specific keywords (in addition to dDefault)
  'abort,access,admin,after,aggregate,also,always,analyse,analyze,array,assignment,'+
  'asymmetric,backward,before,bigint,binary,boolean,cache,called,chain,characteristics,'+
  'checkpoint,class,cluster,comment,committed,concurrently,configuration,content,'+
  'conversion,copy,cost,createdb,createrole,createuser,csv,current_role,cycle,database,'+
  'defaults,definer,delimiter,delimiters,dictionary,disable,discard,do,document,each,'+
  'enable,encoding,encrypted,enum,excluding,exclusive,explain,family,force,forward,'+
  'freeze,function,granted,greatest,handler,header,hold,if,ilike,immutable,implicit,'+
  'including,increment,indexes,inherit,inherits,inout,instead,invoker,isnull,'+
  'lancompiler,large,least,limit,listen,load,localtime,localtimestamp,location,lock,'+
  'login,mapping,maxvalue,minvalue,mode,move,new,nocreatedb,nocreaterole,nocreateuser,'+
  'noinherit,nologin,nosuperuser,nothing,notify,notnull,nowait,nulls,object,off,offset,'+
  'oids,old,operator,out,overlay,owned,owner,parser,password,placing,plans,prepared,'+
  'procedural,quote,reassign,recheck,reindex,release,rename,repeatable,replace,replica,'+
  'reset,restart,returning,returns,role,row,rule,savepoint,search,security,sequence,'+
  'serializable,setof,share,show,similar,simple,stable,standalone,start,statement,'+
  'statistics,stdin,stdout,storage,strict,strip,superuser,symmetric,sysid,system,'+
  'tablespace,temp,template,text,treat,trigger,truncate,trusted,type,uncommitted,'+
  'unencrypted,unlisten,until,vacuum,valid,validator,verbose,version,volatile,'+
  'whitespace,without,xml,xmlattributes,xmlconcat,xmlelement,xmlforest,xmlparse,xmlpi,'+
  'xmlroot,xmlserialize,yes',
  // dDB2 specific keywords (in addition to dDefault)
  'activate,document,dssize,dynamic,each,editproc,elseif,enable,encoding,encryption,'+
  'ending,erase,every,excluding,exclusive,exit,explain,fenced,fieldproc,file,final,free,'+
  'function,general,generated,graphic,handler,hash,hashed_value,hint,hold,hours,if,'+
  'including,inclusive,increment,inf,infinity,inherit,inout,integrity,isobid,iterate,jar,'+
  'java,keep,label,lateral,lc_ctype,leave,linktype,localdate,locale,localtime,'+
  'localtimestamp,locator,locators,lock,lockmax,locksize,long,loop,maintained,'+
  'materialized,maxvalue,microsecond,microseconds,minutes,minvalue,mode,modifies,'+
  'months,nan,new,new_table,nextval,nocache,nocycle,nodename,nodenumber,nomaxvalue,'+
  'nominvalue,noorder,normalized,nulls,numparts,obid,old,old_table,optimization,'+
  'optimize,out,over,overriding,package,padded,pagesize,parameter,part,partition,'+
  'partitioned,partitioning,partitions,password,path,piecesize,plan,prevval,priqty,'+
  'program,psid,query,queryno,range,rank,reads,recovery,referencing,refresh,release,'+
  'rename,repeat,reset,resignal,restart,result,result_set_locator,return,returns,role,'+
  'round_ceilingadd,round_downafter,round_flooralias,round_half_downall,'+
  'round_half_evenallocate,round_half_upallow,round_upalter,routineand,'+
  'row_numberas,rowany,rownumberasensitive,rowsassociate,rowsetasutime,rrnat,'+
  'runattributes,savepointaudit,schemaauthorization,scratchpadaux,scrollauxiliary,'+
  'searchbefore,secondbegin,secondsbetween,secqtybinary,securitybufferpool,selectby,'+
  'sensitivecache,sequencecall,session_usercapture,sessioncalled,setcardinality,'+
  'signalcascaded,simplecase,snancast,someccsid,sourcechar,specificcharacter,'+
  'sqlcheck,sqlidclone,stackedclose,standardcluster,startcollection,startingcollid,'+
  'statementcolumn,staticcomment,statmentcommit,stayconcat,stogroupcondition,'+
  'storesconnect,styleconnection,substringconstraint,summarycontains,'+
  'synonymcontinue,sysfuncount,sysibmcount_big,sysproccreate,system_usercurrent,'+
  'systemcross,tablecurrent_date,tablespacecurrent_lc_ctype,thencurrent_path,'+
  'timecurrent_schema,timestampcurrent_server,tocurrent_time,'+
  'transactioncurrent_timestamp,triggercurrent_timezone,trimcurrent_user,'+
  'truncatecursor,typecycle,undodata,uniondatabase,uniquedatapartitionname,'+
  'untildatapartitionnum,updatedate,usageday,userdays,usingdb2general,'+
  'validprocdb2genrl,valuedb2sql,valuesdbinfo,variabledbpartitionname,'+
  'variantdbpartitionnum,vcatdeallocate,versiondeclare,viewdefault,'+
  'volatiledefaults,volumesdefinition,whendelete,wheneverdense_rank,wheredenserank,'+
  'whiledescribe,withdescriptor,withoutdeter',
  // dInformix specific keywords (in addition to dDefault)
  '');
var db: TSQLDBDefinition;
begin // search using fast binary lookup in the alphabetic ordered arrays
  if DB_KEYWORDS[dDefault]=nil then
    for db := Low(DB_KEYWORDS) to high(DB_KEYWORDS) do
      CSVToRawUTF8DynArray(DB_KEYWORDS_CSV[db],DB_KEYWORDS[db]);
  aWord := Trim(LowerCase(aWord));
  if (aDB=dSQLite) or
     (FastFindPUTF8CharSorted(pointer(DB_KEYWORDS[dDefault]),
       high(DB_KEYWORDS[dDefault]),pointer(aWord))<0) then
    if aDB<=dDefault then
      result := false else
      result := FastFindPUTF8CharSorted(pointer(DB_KEYWORDS[aDB]),
        high(DB_KEYWORDS[aDB]),pointer(aWord))>=0 else
    result := true;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.IsSQLKeyword(aWord: RawUTF8): boolean;
begin
  result := IsSQLKeyword(DBMS,aWord);
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetFieldDefinitions(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
  out Fields: TRawUTF8DynArray; WithForeignKeys: boolean);
var F: TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray;
    Ref: RawUTF8;
    i: integer;
begin
  GetFields(aTableName,F);
  SetLength(Fields,length(F));
  for i := 0 to high(F) do begin
    Fields[i] := GetFieldDefinition(F[i]);
    if WithForeignKeys then begin
      Ref := GetForeignKey(aTableName,F[i].ColumnName);
      if Ref<>'' then
        Fields[i] := Fields[i] +' % '+Ref;
    end;
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetFields(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
  out Fields: TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray);
var SQL: RawUTF8;
    n,i: integer;
    F: TSQLDBColumnDefine;
    FA: TDynArray;
begin
  FA.Init(TypeInfo(TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray),Fields,@n);
  FA.Compare := SortDynArrayAnsiStringI; // FA.Find() case insensitive
  FillCharFast(F,sizeof(F),0);
  if fDBMS=dSQLite then begin // SQLite3 has a specific PRAGMA metadata query
    try
      with Execute('PRAGMA table_info(`'+aTableName+'`)',[]) do
      while Step do begin
        // cid=0,name=1,type=2,notnull=3,dflt_value=4,pk=5
        F.ColumnName := ColumnUTF8(1);
        F.ColumnTypeNative := ColumnUTF8(2);
        F.ColumnType := ColumnTypeNativeToDB(F.ColumnTypeNative,0);
        F.ColumnIndexed := (ColumnInt(5)=1); // by definition for SQLite3
        FA.Add(F);
      end;
    except
      on Exception do
        n := 0; // external SQLite3 providers (e.g. UniDAC) are buggy
    end;
    try
      with Execute('PRAGMA index_list(`'+aTableName+'`)',[]) do
      while Step do
        // seq=0,name=1,unique=2
        with Execute('PRAGMA index_info('+ColumnUTF8(1)+')',[]) do
          while Step do begin
            F.ColumnName := ColumnUTF8(2); // seqno=0,cid=1,name=2
            i := FA.Find(F);
            if i>=0 then
              Fields[i].ColumnIndexed := true;
          end;
    except
      on Exception do
        ; // ignore any exception if no index is defined
    end;
  end else begin
    SQL := SQLGetField(aTableName);
    if SQL='' then
      exit;
    with Execute(SQL,[]) do
      while Step do begin
        F.ColumnName := trim(ColumnUTF8(0));
        F.ColumnTypeNative := trim(ColumnUTF8(1));
        F.ColumnLength := ColumnInt(2);
        F.ColumnPrecision := ColumnInt(3);
        if ColumnNull(4) then // e.g. for plain NUMERIC in Oracle
          F.ColumnScale := -1 else
          F.ColumnScale := ColumnInt(4);
        F.ColumnType := ColumnTypeNativeToDB(F.ColumnTypeNative,F.ColumnScale);
        if ColumnInt(5)>0 then
          F.ColumnIndexed := true;
        FA.Add(F);
      end;
  end;
  SetLength(Fields,n);
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetIndexes(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
  out Indexes: TSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray);
var SQL: RawUTF8;
    n: integer;
    F: TSQLDBIndexDefine;
    FA: TDynArray;
begin
  SQL := SQLGetIndex(aTableName);
  if SQL='' then
    exit;
  FA.Init(TypeInfo(TSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray),Indexes,@n);
  with Execute(SQL,[]) do
    while Step do begin
      F.IndexName          := trim(ColumnUTF8(0));
      F.IsUnique           := ColumnInt (1)>0;
      F.TypeDesc           := trim(ColumnUTF8(2));
      F.IsPrimaryKey       := ColumnInt (3)>0;
      F.IsUniqueConstraint := ColumnInt (4)>0;
      F.Filter             := trim(ColumnUTF8(5));
      F.KeyColumns         := trim(ColumnUTF8(6));
      F.IncludedColumns    := trim(ColumnUTF8(7));
      FA.Add(F);
    end;
  SetLength(Indexes,n);
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetProcedureNames(out Procedures: TRawUTF8DynArray);
var SQL: RawUTF8;
    count: integer;
begin
  SQL := SQLGetProcedure;
  if SQL<>'' then
  try
    with Execute(SQL,[]) do begin
      count := 0;
      while Step do
        AddSortedRawUTF8(Procedures,count,trim(ColumnUTF8(0)));
      SetLength(Procedures,count);
    end;
  except
    on Exception do
      SetLength(Procedures,0); // if the supplied SQL query is wrong, just ignore
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetProcedureParameters(const aProcName: RawUTF8;
  out Parameters: TSQLDBProcColumnDefineDynArray);
var SQL: RawUTF8;
    n: integer;
    F: TSQLDBProcColumnDefine;
    FA: TDynArray;
begin
  FA.Init(TypeInfo(TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray),Parameters,@n);
  FA.Compare := SortDynArrayAnsiStringI; // FA.Find() case insensitive
  FillcharFast(F,sizeof(F),0);
  SQL := SQLGetParameter(aProcName);
  if SQL='' then
    exit;
  with Execute(SQL,[]) do
    while Step do begin
      F.ColumnName := trim(ColumnUTF8(0));
      F.ColumnTypeNative := trim(ColumnUTF8(1));
      F.ColumnLength := ColumnInt(2);
      F.ColumnPrecision := ColumnInt(3);
      if ColumnNull(4) then // e.g. for plain NUMERIC in Oracle
        F.ColumnScale := -1 else
        F.ColumnScale := ColumnInt(4);
      F.ColumnType := ColumnTypeNativeToDB(F.ColumnTypeNative,F.ColumnScale);
      case FindCSVIndex('IN,OUT,INOUT',ColumnUTF8(5),',',false) of
        0: F.ColumnParamType := paramIn;
        2: F.ColumnParamType := paramInOut;
      else // any other is assumed as out
        F.ColumnParamType := paramOut;
      end;
      FA.Add(F);
    end;
  SetLength(Parameters,n);
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetTableNames(out Tables: TRawUTF8DynArray);
var SQL, table, checkschema: RawUTF8;
    count: integer;
begin
  SQL := SQLGetTableNames;
  if SQL<>'' then
  try
    if FilterTableViewSchemaName and (fForcedSchemaName<>'') then
      checkschema := UpperCase(fForcedSchemaName)+'.';
    with Execute(SQL,[]) do begin
      count := 0;
      while Step do begin
        table := trim(ColumnUTF8(0));
        if (checkschema='') or IdemPChar(pointer(table),pointer(checkschema)) then
          AddSortedRawUTF8(Tables,count,table);
      end;
      SetLength(Tables,count);
    end;
  except
    on Exception do
      SetLength(Tables,0); // if the supplied SQL query is wrong, just ignore
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetViewNames(out Views: TRawUTF8DynArray);
var SQL, table, checkschema: RawUTF8;
    count: integer;
begin
  SQL := SQLGetViewNames;
  if SQL<>'' then
  try
    if FilterTableViewSchemaName and (fForcedSchemaName<>'') then
      checkschema := UpperCase(fForcedSchemaName)+'.';
    with Execute(SQL,[]) do begin
      count := 0;
      while Step do begin
        table := trim(ColumnUTF8(0));
        if (checkschema='') or IdemPChar(pointer(table),pointer(checkschema)) then
          AddSortedRawUTF8(Views,count,table);
      end;
      SetLength(Views,count);
    end;
  except
    on Exception do
      SetLength(Views,0); // if the supplied SQL query is wrong, just ignore
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLSplitTableName(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
  out Owner, Table: RawUTF8);
begin
  case fDBMS of
  dSQLite:
    Table := aTableName;
  else begin
    Split(aTableName,'.',Owner,Table);
    if Table='' then begin
      Table := Owner;
      if fForcedSchemaName='' then
        case fDBMS of
        dMySql:
          Owner := DatabaseName;
        else
          Owner := UserID;
        end else
        Owner := fForcedSchemaName;
    end;
  end;
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLSplitProcedureName(
  const aProcName: RawUTF8; out Owner, Package, ProcName: RawUTF8);
var lOccur,i: Integer;
begin
  lOccur := 0;
  for i := 1 to length(aProcName) do
    if aProcName[i]='.' then
      inc(lOccur);
  if lOccur=0 then begin
    ProcName := aProcName;
    SetSchemaNameToOwner(Owner);
    Exit;
  end;
  case fDBMS of
  dSQLite:
    ProcName := aProcName;
  dOracle, dFirebird: begin // Firebird 3 has packages
    if lOccur=2 then begin // OWNER.PACKAGE.PROCNAME
      Split(aProcName,'.',Owner,Package);
      Split(Package,'.',Package,ProcName);
    end else begin // PACKAGE.PROCNAME
      Split(aProcName,'.',Package,ProcName);
      Owner := UserID;
    end;
  end else begin  // OWNER.PROCNAME
    Split(aProcName,'.',Owner,ProcName);
    if ProcName='' then begin
      ProcName := Owner;
      SetSchemaNameToOwner(Owner);
    end
    else if fDBMS=dMSSQL then
      // discard ;1 when MSSQL stored procedure name is ProcName;1
      Split(ProcName,';',ProcName);
  end;
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLFullTableName(const aTableName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8;
begin
  if (aTableName<>'') and (fForcedSchemaName<>'') and (PosExChar('.',aTableName)=0) then
    result := fForcedSchemaName+'.'+aTableName else
    result := aTableName;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLGetField(const aTableName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8;
var Owner, Table: RawUTF8;
    FMT: RawUTF8;
begin
  result := '';
  case DBMS of
  dOracle: FMT :=
    'select c.column_name, c.data_type, c.data_length, c.data_precision, c.data_scale, '+
    ' (select count(*) from sys.all_indexes a, sys.all_ind_columns b'+
    '  where a.table_owner=c.owner and a.table_name=c.table_name and b.column_name=c.column_name'+
    '  and a.owner=b.index_owner and a.index_name=b.index_name and'+
    '  a.table_owner=b.table_owner and a.table_name=b.table_name) index_count'+
    ' from sys.all_tab_columns c'+
    ' where c.owner like ''%'' and c.table_name like ''%'';';
  dMSSQL, dMySQL, dPostgreSQL: FMT :=
    'select COLUMN_NAME, DATA_TYPE, CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH, NUMERIC_PRECISION,'+
    ' NUMERIC_SCALE, 0 INDEX_COUNT'+ // INDEX_COUNT=0 here (done via OleDB)
    ' from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS'+
    ' where UPPER(TABLE_SCHEMA) = ''%'' and UPPER(TABLE_NAME) = ''%''';
  dFirebird: begin
    result := // see http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/25259
      'select a.rdb$field_name, b.rdb$field_type || coalesce(b.rdb$field_sub_type, '''') as rdb$field_type,'+
      ' b.rdb$field_length, b.rdb$field_length, abs(b.rdb$field_scale) as rdb$field_scale,'+
      ' (select count(*) from rdb$indices i, rdb$index_segments s'+
      ' where i.rdb$index_name=s.rdb$index_name and i.rdb$index_name not like ''RDB$%'''+
      ' and i.rdb$relation_name=a.rdb$relation_name) as index_count '+
      'from rdb$relation_fields a left join rdb$fields b on a.rdb$field_source=b.rdb$field_name'+
      ' left join rdb$relations c on a.rdb$relation_name=c.rdb$relation_name '+
      'where a.rdb$relation_name='''+SynCommons.UpperCase(aTableName)+'''';
    exit;
  end;
  dNexusDB: begin
    result := 'select FIELD_NAME, FIELD_TYPE_SQL, FIELD_LENGTH, FIELD_UNITS,'+
    ' FIELD_DECIMALS, FIELD_INDEX from #fields where TABLE_NAME = '''+aTableName+'''';
    exit;
  end;
  else exit; // others (e.g. dDB2) will retrieve info from (ODBC) driver
  end;
  SQLSplitTableName(aTableName,Owner,Table);
  FormatUTF8(FMT,[SynCommons.UpperCase(Owner),SynCommons.UpperCase(Table)],result);
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLGetIndex(const aTableName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8;
var Owner, Table: RawUTF8;
    FMT: RawUTF8;
begin
  result := '';
  case DBMS of
  dOracle: FMT :=
   'select  index_name, decode(max(uniqueness),''NONUNIQUE'',0,1) as is_unique, '+
   ' max(index_type) as type_desc, 0 as is_primary_key, 0 as unique_constraint, '+
   ' cast(null as varchar(100)) as index_filter, '+
   ' ltrim(max(sys_connect_by_path(column_name, '', '')), '', '') as key_columns, '+
   ' cast(null as varchar(100)) as included_columns '+
   'from '+
   '( select c.index_name as index_name, i.index_type, i.uniqueness, c.column_name, '+
   '   row_number() over (partition by c.table_name, c.index_name order by c.column_position) as rn '+
   '  from user_ind_columns c inner join user_indexes i on c.table_name = i.table_name and c.index_name = i.index_name '+
   '  where c.table_name = ''%'' '+
   ') start with rn = 1 connect by prior rn = rn - 1 and prior index_name = index_name '+
   'group by index_name order by index_name';
  dMSSQL: FMT :=
    'select i.name as index_name, i.is_unique, i.type_desc, is_primary_key, is_unique_constraint, '+
    '  i.filter_definition as index_filter, key_columns, included_columns as included_columns, '+
    '  t.name as table_name '+
    'from '+
    ' sys.tables t inner join sys.indexes i on i.object_id = t.object_id '+
    ' cross apply(select STUFF('+
    '   (select '',''+c.name from sys.index_columns ic '+
    '   inner join sys.columns c on c.object_id = t.object_id and c.column_id = ic.column_id '+
    '   where i.index_id = ic.index_id and i.object_id = ic.object_id and ic.is_included_column = 0 '+
    '   order by ic.key_ordinal for xml path('''') '+
    '   ),1,1,'''') as key_columns) AS c '+
    ' cross apply(select STUFF( '+
    '   (select '','' + c.name  from sys.index_columns ic '+
    '   inner join	sys.columns c on	c.object_id = t.object_id	and c.column_id = ic.column_id '+
    '   where i.index_id = ic.index_id and i.object_id = ic.object_id and ic.is_included_column = 1 '+
    '   order by ic.key_ordinal for xml path('''') '+
    '   ),1,1,'''') as included_columns) AS ic '+
    'where t.type = ''U'' and t.name like ''%''';
  dFirebird: FMT :=
    'select i.rdb$index_name, i.rdb$unique_flag, i.rdb$index_type, case rc.rdb$constraint_type '+
    ' when ''PRIMARY KEY'' then 1 else 0 end as is_primary_key, 0 as unique_constraint, '+
    ' null as index_filter, (select list(trim(rdb$field_name), '', '') from '+
    '  (select * from rdb$index_segments where rdb$index_name = i.rdb$index_name '+
    '  order by rdb$field_position)) as key_columns, null as included_columns '+
    'from rdb$indices i '+
    'left outer join rdb$relation_constraints rc on rc.rdb$index_name = i.rdb$index_name and '+
    '  rc.rdb$constraint_type=''PRIMARY KEY'' '+
    'where exists(select * from rdb$index_segments where rdb$index_name = i.rdb$index_name) and '+
    ' i.rdb$relation_name = ''%''';
  else exit; // others (e.g. dMySQL or dDB2) will retrieve info from (ODBC) driver
  end;
  Split(aTableName,'.',Owner,Table);
  if Table='' then begin
    Table := Owner;
    Owner := UserID;
  end;
  FormatUTF8(FMT,[SynCommons.UpperCase(Table)],result);
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLGetParameter(const aProcName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8;
var Owner, Package, Proc: RawUTF8;
    FMT: RawUTF8;
begin
  result := '';
  SQLSplitProcedureName(aProcName,Owner,Package,Proc);
  case DBMS of
  dOracle: FMT :=
    'select a.argument_name, a.data_type, a.char_length, a.data_precision, a.data_scale, a.in_out ' +
    'from   sys.all_arguments a ' +
    'where  a.owner like ''%''' +
    '  and  a.package_name like ''' + SynCommons.UpperCase(Package) + '''' +
    '  and  a.object_name like ''%''' +
    ' order by position';
  dMSSQL, dMySQL, dPostgreSQL: FMT :=
    'select PARAMETER_NAME, DATA_TYPE, CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH, NUMERIC_PRECISION, NUMERIC_SCALE, PARAMETER_MODE ' +
    'from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PARAMETERS ' +
    'where UPPER(SPECIFIC_SCHEMA) = ''%'' and UPPER(SPECIFIC_NAME) = ''%'''+
    ' order by ORDINAL_POSITION';
  dFirebird: begin
    if (Package = '') then
      result :=
        'select a.rdb$parameter_name, b.rdb$field_type || coalesce(b.rdb$field_sub_type, '''') as rdb$field_type,' +
        ' b.rdb$field_length, b.rdb$field_precision, b.rdb$field_scale,' +
        ' case a.rdb$parameter_type when 0 then ''IN'' else ''OUT'' end ' +
        'from rdb$procedure_parameters a, rdb$fields b ' +
        'where b.rdb$field_name = a.rdb$field_source and a.rdb$procedure_name = ''' + SynCommons.UpperCase(Proc) + ''' ' +
        'order by a.rdb$parameter_number'
    else
      result :=
        'select a.rdb$parameter_name, b.rdb$field_type || coalesce(b.rdb$field_sub_type, '''') as rdb$field_type,' +
        ' b.rdb$field_length, b.rdb$field_precision, b.rdb$field_scale,' +
        ' case a.rdb$parameter_type when 0 then ''IN'' else ''OUT'' end ' +
        'from rdb$procedure_parameters a, rdb$fields b ' +
        'where b.rdb$field_name = a.rdb$field_source and a.rdb$package_name = ''' + SynCommons.UpperCase(Package) + ''' ' +
        '  and a.rdb$procedure_name = ''' + SynCommons.UpperCase(Proc) + ''' ' +
        'order by a.rdb$parameter_number';
    exit;
  end;
  dNexusDB: begin // NOT TESTED !!!
    result := 'select PROCEDURE_ARGUMENT_NAME, PROCEDURE_ARGUMENT_TYPE, PROCEDURE_ARGUMENT_UNITS,'+
    ' PROCEDURE_ARGUMENT_UNITS, PROCEDURE_ARGUMENT_DECIMALS, PROCEDURE_ARGUMENT_KIND,'+
    ' from #procedure_arguments where PROCEDURE_NAME = '''+aProcName+'''' +
    ' order by PROCEDURE_ARGUMENT_INDEX';
    exit;
  end;
  else exit; // others (e.g. dDB2) will retrieve info from (ODBC) driver
  end;
  FormatUTF8(FMT,[SynCommons.UpperCase(Owner),SynCommons.UpperCase(Proc)],result);
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLGetProcedure: RawUTF8;
var FMT,Owner: RawUTF8;
begin
  result := '';
  case DBMS of
  dOracle: FMT :=
    'select' +
    '  case P.OBJECT_TYPE' +
    '  when ''PACKAGE'' then P.OBJECT_NAME || ''.'' || P.PROCEDURE_NAME' +
    '  else P.OBJECT_NAME end NAME_ROUTINE ' +
    'from SYS.ALL_PROCEDURES P ' +
    'where P.OWNER = ''%'' and P.SUBPROGRAM_ID > 0 ' +
    'order by NAME_ROUTINE';
  dMSSQL, dMySQL, dPostgreSQL: FMT :=
    'select R.SPECIFIC_NAME NAME_ROUTINE ' +
    'from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES R ' +
    'where UPPER(R.SPECIFIC_SCHEMA) = ''%'' '+
    'order by NAME_ROUTINE';
  dFirebird: FMT :=
    'select P.RDB$PROCEDURE_NAME NAME_ROUTINE ' +
    'from RDB$PROCEDURES P ' +
    'where P.RDB$OWNER_NAME = ''%'' ' +
    'order by NAME_ROUTINE';
  dNexusDB: begin // NOT TESTED !!!
    result := 'select P.PROCEDURE_NAME NAME_ROUTINE '+
    'from #PROCEDURES P ' +
    'order by NAME_ROUTINE';
    exit;
  end;
  else exit; // others (e.g. dDB2) will retrieve info from (ODBC) driver
  end;
  SetSchemaNameToOwner(Owner);
  FormatUTF8(FMT,[SynCommons.UpperCase(Owner)],result);
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLGetTableNames: RawUTF8;
begin
  case DBMS of
  dOracle: result := 'select owner||''.''||table_name name '+
    'from sys.all_tables order by owner, table_name';
  dMSSQL:
    result := 'select (TABLE_SCHEMA + ''.'' + TABLE_NAME) as name '+
      'from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES where TABLE_TYPE=''BASE TABLE'' order by name';
  dMySQL:
    result := 'select concat(TABLE_SCHEMA,''.'',TABLE_NAME) as name '+
      'from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES where TABLE_TYPE=''BASE TABLE'' order by name';
  dPostgreSQL:
    result := 'select (TABLE_SCHEMA||''.''||TABLE_NAME) as name '+
      'from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES where TABLE_TYPE=''BASE TABLE'' order by name';
  dSQLite: result := 'select name from sqlite_master where type=''table'' '+
     'and name not like ''sqlite_%''';
  dFirebird: result := 'select rdb$relation_name from rdb$relations '+
    'where rdb$view_blr is null and (rdb$system_flag is null or rdb$system_flag=0)';
  dNexusDB: result := 'select table_name name from #tables order by table_name';
  else result := ''; // others (e.g. dDB2) will retrieve info from (ODBC) driver
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLGetViewNames: RawUTF8;
begin
  case DBMS of
  dOracle: result := 'select owner||''.''||view_name name '+
    'from sys.all_views order by owner, view_name';
  dMSSQL:
    result := 'select (TABLE_SCHEMA + ''.'' + TABLE_NAME) as name '+
      'from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS order by name';
  dMySQL:
    result := 'select concat(TABLE_SCHEMA,''.'',TABLE_NAME) as name '+
      'from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS order by name';
  dPostgreSQL:
    result := 'select (TABLE_SCHEMA||''.''||TABLE_NAME) as name '+
      'from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS order by name';
  dSQLite: result := 'select name from sqlite_master where type=''view'' '+
     'and name not like ''sqlite_%''';
  dFirebird: result := 'select rdb$relation_name from rdb$relations '+
    'where rdb$view_blr is not null and (rdb$system_flag is null or rdb$system_flag=0)';
  dNexusDB: result := 'select view_name name from #views order by view_name'; // NOT TESTED !!!
  else result := ''; // others (e.g. dDB2) will retrieve info from (ODBC) driver
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLCreateDatabase(const aDatabaseName: RawUTF8;
  aDefaultPageSize: integer): RawUTF8;
begin
  case DBMS of
  dFirebird: begin
    if (aDefaultPageSize<>8192) or (aDefaultPageSize<>16384) then
      aDefaultPageSize := 4096;
    FormatUTF8('create database ''%'' user ''sysdba'' password ''masterkey'''+
      ' page_size % default character set utf8;',[aDatabaseName,aDefaultPageSize],result);
  end;
  else result := '';
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.ColumnTypeNativeToDB(
  const aNativeType: RawUTF8; aScale: integer): TSQLDBFieldType;
function ColumnTypeNativeDefault: TSQLDBFieldType;
const
  DECIMAL=18; // change it if you update PCHARS[] below before 'DECIMAL'
  NUMERIC=DECIMAL+1;
  PCHARS: array[0..55] of PAnsiChar = (
    'TEXT COLLATE ISO8601', // should be before plain 'TEXT'
    'TEXT','CHAR','NCHAR','VARCHAR','NVARCHAR','CLOB','NCLOB','DBCLOB',
    'BIT','INT','BIGINT', 'DOUBLE','NUMBER','FLOAT','REAL','DECFLOAT',
    'CURR','DECIMAL','NUMERIC', 'BLOB SUB_TYPE 1',  'BLOB',
    'DATE','SMALLDATE','TIME',
    'TINYINT','BOOL','SMALLINT','MEDIUMINT','SERIAL','YEAR',
    'TINYTEXT','MEDIUMTEXT','NTEXT','XML','ENUM','SET','UNIQUEIDENTIFIER',
    'MONEY','SMALLMONEY','NUM',
    'VARRAW','RAW','LONG RAW','LONG VARRAW','TINYBLOB','MEDIUMBLOB',
    'BYTEA','VARBIN','IMAGE','LONGBLOB','BINARY','VARBINARY',
    'GRAPHIC','VARGRAPHIC', 'NULL');
  TYPES: array[-1..high(PCHARS)] of TSQLDBFieldType = (
    ftUnknown, ftDate,
    ftUTF8,ftUTF8,ftUTF8,ftUTF8,ftUTF8,ftUTF8,ftUTF8,ftUTF8,
    ftInt64,ftInt64,ftInt64, ftDouble,ftDouble,ftDouble,ftDouble,ftDouble,
    ftCurrency,ftCurrency,ftCurrency, ftUTF8, ftBlob,
    ftDate,ftDate,ftDate,
    ftInt64,ftInt64,ftInt64,ftInt64,ftInt64,ftInt64,
    ftUTF8,ftUTF8,ftUTF8,ftUTF8,ftUTF8,ftUTF8,ftUTF8,
    ftCurrency,ftCurrency,ftCurrency,
    ftBlob,ftBlob,ftBlob,ftBlob,ftBlob,ftBlob,ftBlob,ftBlob,
    ftBlob,ftBlob,ftBlob,ftBlob,ftBlob,ftBlob,
    ftNull);
var ndx: integer;
begin
  //assert(StrComp(PCHARS[DECIMAL],'DECIMAL')=0);
  ndx := IdemPCharArray(pointer(aNativeType),PCHARS);
  if (aScale=0) and (ndx in [DECIMAL,NUMERIC]) then
    result := ftInt64 else
    result := TYPES[ndx];
end;
function ColumnTypeNativeToDBOracle: TSQLDBFieldType;
begin
  if PosEx('CHAR',aNativeType)>0 then
    result := ftUTF8 else
  if IdemPropNameU(aNativeType,'NUMBER') then
    case aScale of
         0: result := ftInt64;
      1..4: result := ftCurrency;
    else    result := ftDouble;
    end else
  if (PosEx('RAW',aNativeType)>0) or
     IdemPropNameU(aNativeType,'BLOB') or
     IdemPropNameU(aNativeType,'BFILE') then
    result := ftBlob else
  if IdemPChar(pointer(aNativeType),'BINARY_') or
     IdemPropNameU(aNativeType,'FLOAT') then
    result := ftDouble else
  if IdemPropNameU(aNativeType,'DATE') or
     IdemPChar(pointer(aNativeType),'TIMESTAMP') then
    result := ftDate else
    // all other types will be converted to text
    result := ftUTF8;
end;
function ColumnTypeNativeToDBFirebird: TSQLDBFieldType;
var i,err: integer;
begin
  i := GetInteger(pointer(aNativeType),err);
  if err<>0 then
    result := ColumnTypeNativeDefault else
    case i of // see blr_* definitions
    10,11,27: result := ftDouble;
    12,13,35,120: result := ftDate;
    7,8,9,16,23,70,80,160: result := ftInt64;
    161..169: case abs(aScale) of
            0: result := ftInt64;
         1..4: result := ftCurrency;
         else  result := ftDouble;
         end;
    2610: result := ftBlob;
    else  result := ftUTF8;
    end;
end;
begin
  case DBMS of
  dOracle:   result := ColumnTypeNativeToDBOracle;
  dFireBird: result := ColumnTypeNativeToDBFirebird;
  else       result := ColumnTypeNativeDefault;
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetForeignKey(const aTableName,
  aColumnName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8;
begin
  if not fForeignKeys.Initialized then begin
    fForeignKeys.Init(false);
    GetForeignKeys;
  end;
  result := fForeignKeys.Value(aTableName+'.'+aColumnName);
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetForeignKeysData: RawByteString;
begin
  if not fForeignKeys.Initialized then begin
    fForeignKeys.Init(false);
    GetForeignKeys;
  end;
  result := fForeignKeys.BlobData;
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SetForeignKeysData(const Value: RawByteString);
begin
  if not fForeignKeys.Initialized then
    fForeignKeys.Init(false);
  fForeignKeys.BlobData := Value;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLIso8601ToDate(const Iso8601: RawUTF8): RawUTF8;
  function TrimTInIso: RawUTF8;
  begin
    result := Iso8601;
    if (length(result)>10) and (result[11]='T') then
      result[11] := ' '; // 'T' -> ' '
  end;
begin
  case DBMS of
  dSQLite: result := TrimTInIso;
  dOracle: result := 'to_date('''+TrimTInIso+''',''YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS'')';
  dNexusDB: result := 'DATE '+Iso8601;
  dDB2: result := 'TIMESTAMP '''+TrimTInIso+'''';
  dPostgreSQL: result := ''''+TrimTInIso+'''';
  else  result := ''''+Iso8601+'''';
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLDateToIso8601Quoted(DateTime: TDateTime): RawUTF8;
begin
  result := DateTimeToIso8601(DateTime,true,DateTimeFirstChar,false,'''');
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLCreate(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
  const aFields: TSQLDBColumnCreateDynArray; aAddID: boolean): RawUTF8;
var i: integer;
    F: RawUTF8;
    FieldID: TSQLDBColumnCreate;
    AddPrimaryKey: RawUTF8;
begin // use 'ID' instead of 'RowID' here since some DB (e.g. Oracle) use it
  result := '';
  if high(aFields)<0 then
    exit; // nothing to create
  if aAddID then begin
    FieldID.DBType := ftInt64;
    FieldID.Name := 'ID';
    FieldID.Unique := true;
    FieldID.NonNullable := true;
    FieldID.PrimaryKey := true;
    result := SQLFieldCreate(FieldID,AddPrimaryKey)+',';
  end;
  for i := 0 to high(aFields) do begin
    F := SQLFieldCreate(aFields[i],AddPrimaryKey);
    if i<>high(aFields) then
      F := F+',';
    result := result+F;
  end;
  if AddPrimaryKey<>'' then
    result := result+', PRIMARY KEY('+AddPrimaryKey+')';
  result := 'CREATE TABLE '+aTableName+' ('+result+')';
  case DBMS of
  dDB2: result := result+' CCSID Unicode';
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLFieldCreate(const aField: TSQLDBColumnCreate;
  var aAddPrimaryKey: RawUTF8): RawUTF8;
begin
  if (aField.DBType=ftUTF8) and (cardinal(aField.Width-1)<fSQLCreateFieldMax) then
    FormatUTF8(fSQLCreateField[ftNull],[aField.Width],result) else
    result := fSQLCreateField[aField.DBType];
  if aField.NonNullable or aField.Unique or aField.PrimaryKey then
    result := result+' NOT NULL';
  if aField.Unique and not aField.PrimaryKey then
    result := result+' UNIQUE'; // see http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_unique.asp
  if aField.PrimaryKey then
    case DBMS of
    dSQLite, dMSSQL, dOracle, dJet, dPostgreSQL, dFirebird, dNexusDB, dInformix:
      result := result+' PRIMARY KEY';
    dDB2, dMySQL:
      aAddPrimaryKey := aField.Name;
    end;
  result := aField.Name+result;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLAddColumn(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
  const aField: TSQLDBColumnCreate): RawUTF8;
var AddPrimaryKey: RawUTF8;
begin
  FormatUTF8('ALTER TABLE % ADD %',[aTableName,SQLFieldCreate(aField,AddPrimaryKey)],result);
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLAddIndex(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
  const aFieldNames: array of RawUTF8; aUnique, aDescending: boolean;
  const aIndexName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8;
const CREATNDXIFNE: array[boolean] of RawUTF8 = ('','IF NOT EXISTS ');
var IndexName,FieldsCSV, ColsDesc, Owner,Table: RawUTF8;
begin
  result := '';
  if (self=nil) or (aTableName='') or (high(aFieldNames)<0) then
    exit;
  if aUnique then
    result := 'UNIQUE ';
  if aIndexName='' then begin
    SQLSplitTableName(aTableName,Owner,Table);
    if (Owner<>'') and
       not (fDBMS in [dMSSQL,dPostgreSQL,dMySQL,dFirebird,dDB2,dInformix]) then
      // some DB engines do not expect any schema in the index name
      IndexName := Owner+'.';
    FieldsCSV := RawUTF8ArrayToCSV(aFieldNames,'');
    if length(FieldsCSV)+length(Table)>27 then
      // sounds like if some DB limit the identifier length to 32 chars
      IndexName := IndexName+'INDEX'+
        crc32cUTF8ToHex(Table)+crc32cUTF8ToHex(FieldsCSV) else
      IndexName := IndexName+'NDX'+Table+FieldsCSV;
  end else
    IndexName := aIndexName;
  if aDescending then
    case DB_SQLDESENDINGINDEXPOS[DBMS] of
    posGlobalBefore:
      result := result+'DESC ';
    posWithColumn:
      ColsDesc := RawUTF8ArrayToCSV(aFieldNames,' DESC,')+' DESC';
    end;
  if ColsDesc='' then
    ColsDesc := RawUTF8ArrayToCSV(aFieldNames,',');
  result := FormatUTF8('CREATE %INDEX %% ON %(%)',
    [result,CREATNDXIFNE[DBMS in DB_HANDLECREATEINDEXIFNOTEXISTS],
     IndexName,aTableName,ColsDesc]);
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLTableName(const aTableName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8;
var BeginQuoteChar, EndQuoteChar: RawUTF8;
    UseQuote: boolean;
begin
  BeginQuoteChar := '"';
  EndQuoteChar := '"';
  UseQuote := PosExChar(' ',aTableName)>0;
  case fDBMS of
    dPostgresql:
      if PosExChar('.',aTablename)=0 then
        UseQuote := true; // quote if not schema.identifier format
    dMySQL: begin
      BeginQuoteChar := '`';  // backtick/grave accent
      EndQuoteChar := '`';
    end;
    dJet: begin  // note: dMSSQL may SET IDENTIFIER ON to use doublequotes
      BeginQuotechar := '[';
      EndQuoteChar := ']';
    end;
    dSQLite: begin
      if PosExChar('.',aTableName)>0 then
        UseQuote := true;
      BeginQuoteChar := '`';  // backtick/grave accent
      EndQuoteChar := '`';
    end;
  end;
  if UseQuote and (PosEx(BeginQuoteChar,aTableName)=0) then
    result := BeginQuoteChar+aTableName+EndQuoteChar else
    result := aTableName;
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetIndexesAndSetFieldsColumnIndexed(
  const aTableName: RawUTF8; var Fields: TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray);
var i,j: integer;
    ColName: RawUTF8;
    Indexes: TSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray;
begin
  if Fields=nil then
    exit;
  GetIndexes(aTableName,Indexes);
  for i := 0 to high(Indexes) do begin
    ColName := Trim(GetCSVItem(pointer(Indexes[i].KeyColumns),0));
    if ColName<>'' then
    for j := 0 to high(Fields) do
      if IdemPropNameU(Fields[j].ColumnName,ColName) then begin
        Fields[j].ColumnIndexed := true;
        break;
      end;
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.ExceptionIsAboutConnection(
  aClass: ExceptClass; const aMessage: RawUTF8): boolean;

  function PosErrorNumber(const aMessage: RawUTF8; const aSepChar: AnsiChar): PUTF8Char;
  begin // search aSepChar followed by a number
    result := pointer(aMessage);
    repeat
      result := SynCommons.PosChar(result,aSepChar);
      if result=nil then
        exit;
      inc(result);
    until result^ in ['0'..'9'];
  end;

begin // see more complete list in feature request [f024266c0839]
  case fDBMS of
  dOracle:
    result := IdemPCharArray(PosErrorNumber(aMessage,'-'),
      ['00028','01012','01017','01033','01089','02396','03113','03114','03135',
       '12152','12154','12157','12514','12520','12537','12545',
       '12560','12571'])>=0;
  dInformix: // error codes based on {IBM INFORMIX ODBC DRIVER} tested with wrong data connection
    result := IdemPCharArray(PosErrorNumber(aMessage,'-'),
      ['329','761','902','908','930','931','951','11017',
       '23101','23104','25567','25582','27002'])>=0;
  dMSSQL: // error codes based on {SQL Server Native Client 11.0} tested with wrong data connection
    // using general error codes because MS SQL SERVER has multiple error codes in the error message
    result := IdemPCharArray(PosErrorNumber(aMessage,'['),
      ['08001','08S01','08007','28000','42000'])>=0;
  dMySQL:
    result := (PosEx('Lost connection to MySQL server',aMessage)>0) or
              (PosEx('MySQL server has gone away',aMessage)>0);
  else
    result := PosI(' CONNE',aMessage)>0;
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.MultipleValuesInsert(
  Props: TSQLDBConnectionProperties; const TableName: RawUTF8;
  const FieldNames: TRawUTF8DynArray; const FieldTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypeArray;
  RowCount: integer; const FieldValues: TRawUTF8DynArrayDynArray);
var SQL: RawUTF8;
    SQLCached: boolean;
    prevrowcount: integer;
    maxf: integer;
procedure ComputeSQL(rowcount,offset: integer);
var f,r,p,len: integer;
    tmp: TTextWriterStackBuffer;
begin
  if (fDBMS<>dFireBird) and (rowcount=prevrowcount) then
    exit;
  prevrowcount := rowcount;
  with TTextWriter.CreateOwnedStream(tmp) do
  try
    case Props.fDBMS of
    dFirebird: begin
      AddShort('execute block('#10);
      p := 0;
      for r := offset to offset+rowcount-1 do begin
        for f := 0 to maxf do begin
          Add('i');
          inc(p);
          AddU(p);
          if FieldValues[f,r]='null' then
            AddShort(' CHAR(1)') else
            case FieldTypes[f] of
            ftNull: AddShort(' CHAR(1)');
            ftUTF8: begin
              len := length(FieldValues[f,r])-2; // unquoted UTF-8 text length
              if len<1 then
                len := 1;
              AddShort(' VARCHAR(');  // inlined Add(fmt...) for Delphi 5
              AddU(len);
              AddShort(') CHARACTER SET UTF8');
            end;
            else AddString(DB_FIELDS[dFirebird,FieldTypes[f]]);
            end;
          AddShort('=?,');
        end;
        CancelLastComma;
        Add(#10,',');
      end;
      CancelLastComma;
      AddShort(') as begin'#10);
      p := 0;
      for r := 1 to rowcount do begin
        AddShort('INSERT INTO ');
        AddString(TableName);
        Add(' ','(');
        for f := 0 to maxf do begin
          AddString(FieldNames[f]);
          Add(',');
        end;
        CancelLastComma;
        AddShort(') VALUES (');
        for f := 0 to maxf do begin
          inc(p);
          Add(':','i');
          AddU(p);
          Add(',');
        end;
        CancelLastComma;
        AddShort(');'#10);
      end;
      AddShort('end');
      if TextLength>32700 then
        raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8(
          '%.MultipleValuesInsert: Firebird Execute Block length=%',[self,TextLength]);
      SQLCached := false; // ftUTF8 values will have varying field length
    end;
    dOracle: begin // INSERT ALL INTO ... VALUES ... SELECT 1 FROM DUAL
      AddShort('insert all'#10); // see http://stackoverflow.com/a/93724
      for r := 1 to rowcount do begin
        AddShort('into ');
        AddString(TableName);
        Add(' ','(');
        for f := 0 to maxf do begin
          AddString(FieldNames[f]);
          Add(',');
        end;
        CancelLastComma;
        AddShort(') VALUES (');
        for f := 0 to maxf do
          Add('?',',');
        CancelLastComma;
        AddShort(')'#10);
      end;
      AddShort('select 1 from dual');
      SQLCached := true;
    end;
    else begin //  e.g. NexusDB/SQlite3/MySQL/PostgreSQL/MSSQL2008/DB2/INFORMIX
      AddShort('INSERT INTO '); // INSERT .. VALUES (..),(..),(..),..
      AddString(TableName);
      Add(' ','(');
      for f := 0 to maxf do begin
        AddString(FieldNames[f]);
        Add(',');
      end;
      CancelLastComma;
      AddShort(') VALUES');
      for r := 1 to rowcount do begin
        Add(' ','(');
        for f := 0 to maxf do
          Add('?',',');
        CancelLastComma;
        Add(')',',');
      end;
      CancelLastComma;
      SQLCached := true;
    end;
    end;
    SetText(SQL);
  finally
    Free;
  end;
end;
var batchRowCount,paramCountLimit: integer;
    currentRow,f,p,i,sqllen: integer;
    Stmt: TSQLDBStatement;
    Query: ISQLDBStatement;
begin
  maxf := length(FieldNames);     // e.g. 2 fields
  if (Props=nil) or (FieldNames=nil) or (TableName='') or (length(FieldValues)<>maxf) then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Invalid %.MultipleValuesInsert(%) call',
      [self,TableName]);
  batchRowCount := 0;
  paramCountLimit := 0;
  case Props.fDBMS of
  // values below were done empirically, assuring < 667 (maximum :AA..:ZZ)
  // see http://stackoverflow.com/a/6582902 for theoritical high limits
  dSQlite:     paramCountLimit := 200;  // theoritical=999
  dMySQL:      paramCountLimit := 500;  // theoritical=60000
  dPostgreSQL: paramCountLimit := 500;  // theoritical=34000
  dOracle:     paramCountLimit := 500;  // empirical value (from ODBC)
  dMSSQL:      paramCountLimit := 500;  // theoritical=2100
  dDB2:        paramCountLimit := 500;  // empirical value (from ODBC)
  dNexusDB:    paramCountLimit := 100;  // empirical limit (above is slower)
  dFirebird: begin // compute from max SQL statement size of 32KB
    sqllen := maxf*48; // worse case (with BLOB param)
    for f := 0 to maxf-1 do
      inc(sqllen,Length(FieldNames[f]));
    batchRowCount := 32000 div sqllen;
    if batchRowCount>RowCount then
      batchRowCount := RowCount;
  end;
  end;
  if paramCountLimit<>0 then
    if RowCount*maxf>paramCountLimit then
      batchRowCount := paramCountLimit div maxf else
      batchRowCount := RowCount;
  if batchRowCount=0 then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.MultipleValuesInsert(%) with # params = %>%',
      [self,TableName,RowCount*maxf,paramCountLimit]);
  dec(maxf);
  prevrowcount := 0;
  SQLCached := false;
  currentRow := 0;
  repeat
    if RowCount-currentRow>batchRowCount then
      ComputeSQL(batchRowCount,currentRow) // max number of params -> try cache
    else begin
      ComputeSQL(RowCount-currentRow,currentRow);
      SQLCached := false; // truncate number of parameters should not be unique
    end;
    if SQLCached then
      Query := Props.NewThreadSafeStatementPrepared(SQL,false) else begin
      Stmt := Props.NewThreadSafeStatement;
      try
        Stmt.Prepare(SQL,false);
        Query := Stmt; // Stmt will be released by Query := nil below
      except
        on Exception do
          Stmt.Free; // avoid memory leak in case of invalid SQL statement
      end; // exception leaves Query=nil to raise exception
    end;
    if Query=nil then
      raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.MultipleValuesInsert: Query=nil for [%]',[self,SQL]);
    try
      p := 1;
      for i := 1 to prevrowcount do begin
        for f := 0 to maxf do begin
          Query.Bind(p,FieldTypes[f],FieldValues[f,currentRow],false);
          inc(p);
        end;
        inc(currentRow);
      end;
      Query.ExecutePrepared;
    finally
      Query := nil; // will release the uncached local Stmt, if applying
    end;
  until currentRow=RowCount;
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.MultipleValuesInsertFirebird(
  Props: TSQLDBConnectionProperties; const TableName: RawUTF8;
  const FieldNames: TRawUTF8DynArray; const FieldTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypeArray;
  RowCount: integer; const FieldValues: TRawUTF8DynArrayDynArray);
var W: TTextWriter;
    maxf,sqllenwitoutvalues,sqllen,r,f,i: PtrInt;
    v: RawUTF8;
begin
  maxf := length(FieldNames);     // e.g. 2 fields
  if (Props=nil) or (FieldNames=nil) or (TableName='') or (length(FieldValues)<>maxf) or
     (Props.fDBMS<>dFirebird) then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Invalid %.MultipleValuesInsertFirebird(%,%)',
      [self,Props,TableName]);
  sqllenwitoutvalues := 3*maxf+24;
  dec(maxf);
  for f := 0 to maxf do
    case FieldTypes[f] of
    ftBlob: begin // not possible to inline BLOBs -> fallback to regular
      MultipleValuesInsert(Props,TableName,FieldNames,FieldTypes,RowCount,FieldValues);
      exit;
    end;
    ftDate: inc(sqllenwitoutvalues,Length(FieldNames[f])+20); // 'timestamp '
    else
      inc(sqllenwitoutvalues,Length(FieldNames[f]));
    end;
  W := TTextWriter.CreateOwnedStream(49152);
  try
    r := 0;
    repeat
      W.AddShort('execute block as begin'#10);
      sqllen := sqllenwitoutvalues;
      repeat
        for f := 0 to maxf do
          inc(sqllen,length(FieldValues[f,r]));
        if sqllen+PtrInt(W.TextLength)>30000 then
          break;
        W.AddShort('INSERT INTO ');
        W.AddString(TableName);
        W.Add(' ','(');
        for f := 0 to maxf do begin
          W.AddString(FieldNames[f]);
          W.Add(',');
        end;
        W.CancelLastComma;
        W.AddShort(') VALUES (');
        for f := 0 to maxf do begin
          v := FieldValues[f,r]; // includes single quotes (#39)
          if (v='') or (v='null') then
            W.AddShort('null') else
          if FieldTypes[f]=ftDate then
            if v=#39#39 then
              W.AddShort('null') else begin
              W.AddShort('timestamp ');
              if length(v)>12 then begin // not 'CCYY-MM-DD' -> fix needed?
                if v[12]='T' then // handle 'CCYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS' common case
                  v[12] := ' ' else begin
                  i := PosExChar('T',v);
                  if i>0 then
                    v[i] := ' ';
                end; // see https://firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-date-literals
              end;
              W.AddString(v)
            end else
            W.AddString(v);
          W.Add(',');
        end;
        W.CancelLastComma;
        W.AddShort(');'#10);
        inc(r);
      until r=RowCount;
      W.AddShort('end');
      with Props.NewThreadSafeStatement do
      try
        Execute(W.Text,false);
      finally
        Free;
      end;
      if r=RowCount then
        break;
      W.CancelAll;
    until false;
  finally
    W.Free;
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.FieldsFromList(const aFields: TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray;
  aExcludeTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypes): RawUTF8;
var i,n: integer;
begin
  result := '';
  if byte(aExcludeTypes)<>0 then begin
    n := length(aFields);
    for i := 0 to n-1 do
    with aFields[i] do
    if not (ColumnType in aExcludeTypes) then begin
      dec(n);
      if result='' then
        result := ColumnName else
        result := result+','+ColumnName;
    end;
    if n=0 then
      result := '*';
  end else
    result := '*';
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLSelectAll(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
  const aFields: TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray; aExcludeTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypes): RawUTF8;
begin
  if (self=nil) or (aTableName='') then
    result := '' else
    result := 'select '+FieldsFromList(aFields,aExcludeTypes)+' from '+
      SQLTableName(aTableName);
end;

class function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.EngineName: RawUTF8;
var L: integer;
begin
  if self=nil then
    result := '' else begin
    result := RawUTF8(ClassName);
    if IdemPChar(pointer(result),'TSQLDB') then
      Delete(result,1,6) else
    if result[1]='T' then
      Delete(result,1,1);
    L := length(result);
    if (L>20) and IdemPropName('ConnectionProperties',@result[L-19],20) then
      SetLength(result,L-20);
    if (L>5) and IdemPropName('OleDB',pointer(result),5) then
      Delete(result,1,5);
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetDBMS: TSQLDBDefinition;
begin
  if fDBMS=dUnknown then
    result := dDefault else
    result := fDBMS;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetDBMSName: RawUTF8;
var PS: PShortString;
begin
  PS := ToText(DBMS);
  FastSetString(result,@PS^[2],ord(PS^[0])-1);
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.GetDatabaseNameSafe: RawUTF8;
begin
  result := StringReplaceAll(fDatabaseName,PassWord,'***');
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.SQLLimitClause(AStmt: TSynTableStatement): TSQLDBDefinitionLimitClause;
begin
  result := DB_SQLLIMITCLAUSE[DBMS];
end;

var
  GlobalDefinitions: array of TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesClass;

class procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.RegisterClassNameForDefinition;
begin
  ObjArrayAddOnce(GlobalDefinitions,TObject(self)); // TClass stored as TObject
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.DefinitionTo(Definition: TSynConnectionDefinition);
begin
  if Definition=nil then
    exit;
  Definition.Kind := ClassName;
  Definition.ServerName := ServerName;
  Definition.DatabaseName := DatabaseName;
  Definition.User := UserID;
  Definition.PassWordPlain := PassWord;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.DefinitionToJSON(Key: cardinal): RawUTF8;
var Definition: TSynConnectionDefinition;
begin
  Definition := TSynConnectionDefinition.Create;
  try
    Definition.Key := Key;
    DefinitionTo(Definition);
    result := Definition.SaveToJSON;
  finally
    Definition.Free;
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionProperties.DefinitionToFile(const aJSONFile: TFileName;
  Key: cardinal);
begin
  FileFromString(JSONReformat(DefinitionToJSON(Key)),aJSONFile);
end;

class function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.ClassFrom(
  aDefinition: TSynConnectionDefinition): TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesClass;
var ndx: integer;
begin
  for ndx := 0 to length(GlobalDefinitions)-1 do
    if GlobalDefinitions[ndx].ClassNameIs(aDefinition.Kind) then begin
      result := GlobalDefinitions[ndx];
      exit;
    end;
  result := nil;
end;

class function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.CreateFrom(
  aDefinition: TSynConnectionDefinition): TSQLDBConnectionProperties;
var C: TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesClass;
begin
  C := ClassFrom(aDefinition);
  if C=nil then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.CreateFrom: unknown % class - please '+
      'add a reference to its implementation unit',[self,aDefinition.Kind]);
  result := C.Create(aDefinition.ServerName,aDefinition.DatabaseName,
    aDefinition.User,aDefinition.PassWordPlain);
end;

class function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.CreateFromJSON(
  const aJSONDefinition: RawUTF8; aKey: cardinal): TSQLDBConnectionProperties;
var Definition: TSynConnectionDefinition;
begin
  Definition := TSynConnectionDefinition.CreateFromJSON(aJSONDefinition,aKey);
  try
    result := CreateFrom(Definition);
  finally
    Definition.Free;
  end;
end;

class function TSQLDBConnectionProperties.CreateFromFile(const aJSONFile: TFileName;
  aKey: cardinal): TSQLDBConnectionProperties;
begin
  result := CreateFromJSON(AnyTextFileToRawUTF8(aJSONFile,true),aKey);
end;


{ TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafe }

procedure TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafe.ClearConnectionPool;
var i: PtrInt;
begin
  fConnectionPool.Safe.Lock;
  try
    if fMainConnection<>nil then
      fMainConnection.fLastAccessTicks := -1; // force IsOutdated to return true
    for i := 0 to fConnectionPool.Count-1 do
      TSQLDBConnectionThreadSafe(fConnectionPool.List[i]).fLastAccessTicks := -1;
    fLatestConnectionRetrievedInPool := -1;
  finally
    fConnectionPool.Safe.UnLock;
  end;
end;

constructor TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafe.Create(const aServerName,
  aDatabaseName, aUserID, aPassWord: RawUTF8);
begin
  fConnectionPool := TSynObjectListLocked.Create;
  fLatestConnectionRetrievedInPool := -1;
  inherited Create(aServerName,aDatabaseName,aUserID,aPassWord);
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafe.CurrentThreadConnectionIndex: Integer;
var id: TThreadID;
    tix: Int64;
    conn: TSQLDBConnectionThreadSafe;
begin // caller made EnterCriticalSection(fConnectionCS)
  if self<>nil then begin
    id := GetCurrentThreadId;
    tix := GetTickCount64;
    result := fLatestConnectionRetrievedInPool;
    if result>=0 then begin
      conn := fConnectionPool.List[result];
      if (conn.fThreadID=id) and not conn.IsOutdated(tix) then
        exit;
    end;
    result := 0;
    while result<fConnectionPool.Count do begin
      conn := fConnectionPool.List[result];
      if conn.IsOutdated(tix) then // to guarantee reconnection
        fConnectionPool.Delete(result) else begin
        if conn.fThreadID=id then begin
          fLatestConnectionRetrievedInPool := result;
          exit;
        end;
        inc(result);
      end;
    end;
  end;
  result := -1;
end;

destructor TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafe.Destroy;
begin
  inherited Destroy; // do MainConnection.Free
  fConnectionPool.Free;
end;

procedure TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafe.EndCurrentThread;
var i: integer;
begin
  fConnectionPool.Safe.Lock;
  try
    i := CurrentThreadConnectionIndex;
    if i>=0 then begin // do nothing if this thread has no active connection
      fConnectionPool.Delete(i); // release thread's TSQLDBConnection instance
      if i=fLatestConnectionRetrievedInPool then
        fLatestConnectionRetrievedInPool := -1;
    end;
  finally
    fConnectionPool.Safe.UnLock;
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafe.GetMainConnection: TSQLDBConnection;
begin
  result := ThreadSafeConnection;
end;

function TSQLDBConnectionPropertiesThreadSafe.ThreadSafeConnection: TSQLDBConnection;
var i: integer;
begin
  case fThreadingMode of
  tmThreadPool: begin
    fConnectionPool.Safe.Lock;
    try
      i := CurrentThreadConnectionIndex;
      if i>=0 then begin
        result := fConnectionPool.List[i];
        exit;
      end;
      result := NewConnection; // no need to release the lock (fast method)
      (result as TSQLDBConnectionThreadSafe).fThreadID := GetCurrentThreadId;
      fLatestConnectionRetrievedInPool := fConnectionPool.Add(result)
    finally
      fConnectionPool.Safe.UnLock;
     end;
  end;
  tmMainConnection:
    result := inherited GetMainConnection;
  else
    result := nil;
  end;
end;

{
  tmBackgroundThread should handle TSQLRestStorageExternal methods:
  Create: ServerTimestamp+GetFields
  BeginTransaction
  Commit
  Rollback
  InternalBatchStop: PrepareSQL+BindArray+ExecutePrepared
  EngineUpdateBlob:  PrepareSQL+Bind/BindNull+ExecutePrepared
  ExecuteDirect:     PrepareSQL+Bind+ExecutePrepared
  ExecuteInlined:    ExecuteInlined

  Handling only TSQLDBStatementWithParams will allow all binding to be
  set in the calling thread, but the actual process to take place in the
  background thread
}

{ TSQLDBStatement }

procedure TSQLDBStatement.Bind(Param: Integer; const Data: TSQLVar;
  IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType);
begin
  with Data do
  case VType of
    ftNull:     BindNull(Param,IO);
    ftInt64:    Bind(Param,VInt64,IO);
    ftDate:     BindDateTime(Param,VDateTime,IO);
    ftDouble:   Bind(Param,VDouble,IO);
    ftCurrency: Bind(Param,VCurrency,IO);
    ftUTF8:     BindTextP(Param,VText,IO);
    ftBlob:     BindBlob(Param,VBlob,VBlobLen,IO);
    else raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.Bind(Param=%,VType=%)',
      [self,Param,ord(VType)]);
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.Bind(Param: Integer; ParamType: TSQLDBFieldType;
  const Value: RawUTF8; ValueAlreadyUnquoted: boolean; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType=paramIn);
var tmp: RawUTF8;
begin
  if not ValueAlreadyUnquoted and (Value='null') then
    // bind null (ftUTF8 should be '"null"')
    BindNull(Param,IO) else
    case ParamType of
      ftNull:     BindNull(Param,IO);
      ftInt64:    Bind(Param,GetInt64(pointer(Value)),IO);
      ftDouble:   Bind(Param,GetExtended(pointer(Value)),IO);
      ftCurrency: BindCurrency(Param,StrToCurrency(pointer(Value)),IO);
      ftBlob:     BindBlob(Param,Value,IO); // already decoded
      ftDate: begin
        if ValueAlreadyUnquoted then
          tmp := Value else
          UnQuoteSQLStringVar(pointer(Value),tmp);
        BindDateTime(Param,Iso8601ToDateTime(tmp),IO);
      end;
      ftUTF8:
        if (fConnection<>nil) and fConnection.fProperties.StoreVoidStringAsNull and
           ((Value='') or // check if '' or '""' should be stored as null
           ((PInteger(Value)^ and $ffffff=$2727) and not ValueAlreadyUnquoted)) then
          BindNull(Param,IO,ftUTF8) else begin
          if ValueAlreadyUnquoted then
            tmp := Value else
            UnQuoteSQLStringVar(pointer(Value),tmp);
          BindTextU(Param,tmp,IO);
        end;
      else raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Invalid %.Bind(%,TSQLDBFieldType(%),%)',
        [self,Param,ord(ParamType),Value]);
    end;
end;

function VariantIsBlob(const V: variant): boolean;
begin
  with TVarData(V) do
    result := (VType=varNull) or
      ((VType=varString) and (VString<>nil) and
       (PCardinal(VString)^ and $ffffff=JSON_BASE64_MAGIC));
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.Bind(const Params: array of const;
  IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType);
var i,c: integer;
begin
  for i := 1 to high(Params)+1 do
  with Params[i-1] do // bind parameter index starts at 1
  case VType of
    vtString:     // expect WinAnsi String for ShortString
      BindTextU(i,WinAnsiToUtf8(@VString^[1],ord(VString^[0])),IO);
    vtAnsiString:
      if VAnsiString=nil then
        BindTextU(i,'',IO) else begin
        c := PInteger(VAnsiString)^ and $00ffffff;
        if c=JSON_BASE64_MAGIC then
          BindBlob(i,Base64ToBin(PAnsiChar(VAnsiString)+3,length(RawUTF8(VAnsiString))-3)) else
        if c=JSON_SQLDATE_MAGIC then
          BindDateTime(i,Iso8601ToDateTimePUTF8Char(PUTF8Char(VAnsiString)+3,length(RawUTF8(VAnsiString))-3)) else
          // expect UTF-8 content only for AnsiString, i.e. RawUTF8 variables
          {$ifdef HASCODEPAGE}
          BindTextU(i,AnyAnsiToUTF8(RawByteString(VAnsiString)),IO);
          {$else}
          BindTextU(i,RawUTF8(VAnsiString),IO);
          {$endif}
      end;
    vtPChar:      BindTextP(i,PUTF8Char(VPChar),IO);
    vtChar:       BindTextU(i,RawUTF8(VChar),IO);
    vtWideChar:   BindTextU(i,RawUnicodeToUtf8(@VWideChar,1),IO);
    vtPWideChar:  BindTextU(i,RawUnicodeToUtf8(VPWideChar,StrLenW(VPWideChar)),IO);
    vtWideString: BindTextW(i,WideString(VWideString),IO);
    {$ifdef HASVARUSTRING}
    {$ifdef UNICODE}
    vtUnicodeString: BindTextS(i,string(VUnicodeString),IO);
    {$else}
    vtUnicodeString: BindTextU(i,UnicodeStringToUtf8(UnicodeString(VUnicodeString)),IO);
    {$endif}
    {$endif}
    vtBoolean:    Bind(i,integer(VBoolean),IO);
    vtInteger:    Bind(i,VInteger,IO);
    vtInt64:      Bind(i,VInt64^,IO);
    {$ifdef FPC}
    vtQWord:      Bind(i,VQWord^,IO);
    {$endif}
    vtCurrency:   BindCurrency(i,VCurrency^,IO);
    vtExtended:   Bind(i,VExtended^,IO);
    vtPointer:
      if VPointer=nil then
        BindNull(i,IO) else
        raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Unexpected %.Bind() pointer',[self]);
    vtVariant:
      BindVariant(i,VVariant^,VariantIsBlob(VVariant^),IO);
    else
      raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.BindArrayOfConst(Param=%,Type=%)',
        [self,i,VType]);
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.BindVariant(Param: Integer; const Data: Variant;
  DataIsBlob: boolean; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType);
{$ifndef DELPHI5OROLDER}
var I64: Int64Rec;
{$endif}
begin
  with TVarData(Data) do
  case VType of
    varNull:
      BindNull(Param,IO);
    varBoolean:
      if VBoolean then
        Bind(Param,1,IO) else
        Bind(Param,0,IO);
    varByte:
      Bind(Param,VInteger,IO);
    varSmallint:
      Bind(Param,VSmallInt,IO);
    {$ifndef DELPHI5OROLDER}
    varShortInt:
      Bind(Param,VShortInt,IO);
    varWord:
      Bind(Param,VWord,IO);
    varLongWord: begin
      I64.Lo := VLongWord;
      I64.Hi := 0;
      Bind(Param,Int64(I64),IO);
    end;
    {$endif}
    varInteger:
      Bind(Param,VInteger,IO);
    varInt64, varWord64:
      Bind(Param,VInt64,IO);
    varSingle:
      Bind(Param,VSingle,IO);
    varDouble:
      Bind(Param,VDouble,IO);
    varDate:
      BindDateTime(Param,VDate,IO);
    varCurrency:
      BindCurrency(Param,VCurrency,IO);
    varOleStr: // handle special case if was bound explicitely as WideString
      BindTextW(Param,WideString(VAny),IO);
    {$ifdef HASVARUSTRING}
    varUString:
      if DataIsBlob then
        raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8(
          '%.BindVariant: BLOB should not be UnicodeString',[self]) else
        BindTextU(Param,UnicodeStringToUtf8(UnicodeString(VAny)),IO);
    {$endif}
    varString:
      if DataIsBlob then
        if (VAny<>nil) and (PInteger(VAny)^ and $00ffffff=JSON_BASE64_MAGIC) then
          // recognized as Base64 encoded text
          BindBlob(Param,Base64ToBin(PAnsiChar(VAny)+3,length(RawByteString(VAny))-3)) else
          // no conversion if was set via TQuery.AsBlob property e.g.
          BindBlob(Param,RawByteString(VAny),IO) else
        // direct bind of AnsiString as UTF-8 value
        {$ifdef HASCODEPAGE}
        BindTextU(Param,AnyAnsiToUTF8(RawByteString(VAny)),IO);
        {$else} // on older Delphi, we assume AnsiString = RawUTF8
        BindTextU(Param,RawUTF8(VAny),IO);
        {$endif}
    else
    if VType=varByRef or varVariant then
      BindVariant(Param,PVariant(VPointer)^,DataIsBlob,IO) else
    if VType=varByRef or varOleStr then
      BindTextW(Param,PWideString(VAny)^,IO) else
    {$ifdef LVCL}
      raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8(
        '%.BindVariant: Unhandled variant type %',[self,VType]);
    {$else}
      // also use TEXT for any non native VType parameter
      {$ifdef NOVARIANTS}
      BindTextU(Param,StringToUTF8(string(Data)),IO);
      {$else}
      BindTextU(Param,VariantToUTF8(Data),IO);
      {$endif}
    {$endif}
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.BindArray(Param: Integer; ParamType: TSQLDBFieldType;
  const Values: TRawUTF8DynArray; ValuesCount: integer);
begin
  if (Param<=0) or (ParamType in [ftUnknown,ftNull]) or (ValuesCount<=0) or
     (length(Values)<ValuesCount) or (fConnection=nil) or
     (fConnection.fProperties.BatchSendingAbilities*[cCreate,cUpdate,cDelete]=[]) then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Invalid call to %.BindArray(Param=%,Type=%)',
      [self,Param,ToText(ParamType)^]);
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.BindArray(Param: Integer; const Values: array of Int64);
begin
  BindArray(Param,ftInt64,nil,0); // will raise an exception (Values=nil)
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.BindArray(Param: Integer; const Values: array of RawUTF8);
begin
  BindArray(Param,ftUTF8,nil,0); // will raise an exception (Values=nil)
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.BindArray(Param: Integer; const Values: array of double);
begin
  BindArray(Param,ftDouble,nil,0); // will raise an exception (Values=nil)
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.BindArrayCurrency(Param: Integer;
  const Values: array of currency);
begin
  BindArray(Param,ftCurrency,nil,0); // will raise an exception (Values=nil)
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.BindArrayDateTime(Param: Integer; const Values: array of TDateTime);
begin
  BindArray(Param,ftDate,nil,0); // will raise an exception (Values=nil)
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.CheckCol(Col: integer);
begin
  if (self=nil) or (cardinal(Col)>=cardinal(fColumnCount)) then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Invalid call to %.Column*(Col=%)',[self,Col]);
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.GetForceBlobAsNull: boolean;
begin
  result := fForceBlobAsNull;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.SetForceBlobAsNull(value: boolean);
begin
  fForceBlobAsNull := value;
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.GetForceDateWithMS: boolean;
begin
  result := fForceDateWithMS;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.SetForceDateWithMS(value: boolean);
begin
  fForceDateWithMS := value;
end;

constructor TSQLDBStatement.Create(aConnection: TSQLDBConnection);
begin
  inherited Create;
  fConnection := aConnection;
  fStripSemicolon := true;
  fCacheIndex := -1;
  if aConnection<>nil then
    fDBMS := aConnection.fProperties.DBMS;
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnCount: integer;
begin
  if self=nil then
    result := 0 else
    result := fColumnCount;
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnBlobBytes(Col: integer): TBytes;
begin
  RawByteStringToBytes(ColumnBlob(Col),result);
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.ColumnBlobToStream(Col: integer; Stream: TStream);
var tmp: RawByteString;
begin
  tmp := ColumnBlob(Col); // default implementation
  Stream.WriteBuffer(pointer(tmp)^,Length(tmp));
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.ColumnBlobFromStream(Col: integer; Stream: TStream);
begin
  raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.ColumnBlobFromStream not implemented',[self]);
end;

{$ifndef LVCL}
function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnVariant(Col: integer): Variant;
begin
  ColumnToVariant(Col,result);
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnToVariant(Col: integer; var Value: Variant): TSQLDBFieldType;
var tmp: RawByteString;
    V: TSQLVar;
begin
  ColumnToSQLVar(Col,V,tmp);
  result := V.VType;
  VarClear(Value);
  with TVarData(Value) do begin
    VType := MAP_FIELDTYPE2VARTYPE[V.VType];
    case result of
      ftNull: ; // do nothing
      ftInt64:    VInt64    := V.VInt64;
      ftDouble:   VDouble   := V.VDouble;
      ftDate:     VDate     := V.VDateTime;
      ftCurrency: VCurrency := V.VCurrency;
      ftBlob: begin
        VAny := nil;
        if V.VBlob<>nil then
          if V.VBlob=pointer(tmp) then
            RawByteString(VAny) := tmp else
            SetString(RawByteString(VAny),PAnsiChar(V.VBlob),V.VBlobLen);
      end;
      ftUTF8: begin
        VAny := nil; // avoid GPF below
        if V.VText<>nil then begin
          if V.VText=pointer(tmp) then
            V.VBlobLen := length(tmp) else
            V.VBlobLen := StrLen(V.VText);
          {$ifndef UNICODE}
          if (fConnection<>nil) and not fConnection.Properties.VariantStringAsWideString then begin
            VType := varString;
            if (CurrentAnsiConvert.CodePage=CP_UTF8) and (V.VText=pointer(tmp)) then
              RawByteString(VAny) := tmp else
              CurrentAnsiConvert.UTF8BufferToAnsi(V.VText,V.VBlobLen,RawByteString(VAny));
          end else
          {$endif UNICODE}
            UTF8ToSynUnicode(V.VText,V.VBlobLen,SynUnicode(VAny));
        end else
          VType := varString; // avoid obscure "Invalid variant type" in FPC
      end;
      else raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8(
        '%.ColumnToVariant: Invalid ColumnType(%)=%',[self,Col,ord(result)]);
    end;
  end;
end;
{$endif LVCL}

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnTimestamp(Col: integer): TTimeLog;
begin
  case ColumnType(Col) of // will call GetCol() to check Col
    ftNull:  result := 0;
    ftInt64: result := ColumnInt(Col);
    ftDate:  PTimeLogBits(@result)^.From(ColumnDateTime(Col));
    else     PTimeLogBits(@result)^.From(Trim(ColumnUTF8(Col)));
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnTimestamp(const ColName: RawUTF8): TTimeLog;
begin
  result := ColumnTimestamp(ColumnIndex(ColName));
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.ColumnsToJSON(WR: TJSONWriter);
var col: integer;
    blob: RawByteString;
begin
  if WR.Expand then
    WR.Add('{');
  for col := 0 to fColumnCount-1 do begin
    if WR.Expand then
      WR.AddFieldName(ColumnName(col)); // add '"ColumnName":'
    if ColumnNull(col) then
      WR.AddShort('null') else
    case ColumnType(col) of
      ftNull:     WR.AddShort('null');
      ftInt64:    WR.Add(ColumnInt(col));
      ftDouble:   WR.AddDouble(ColumnDouble(col));
      ftCurrency: WR.AddCurr64(ColumnCurrency(col));
      ftDate: begin
        WR.Add('"');
        WR.AddDateTime(ColumnDateTime(col),fForceDateWithMS);
        WR.Add('"');
      end;
      ftUTF8: begin
        WR.Add('"');
        WR.AddJSONEscape(pointer(ColumnUTF8(col)));
        WR.Add('"');
      end;
      ftBlob:
        if fForceBlobAsNull then
          WR.AddShort('null') else begin
          blob := ColumnBlob(col);
          WR.WrBase64(pointer(blob),length(blob),{withMagic=}true);
        end;
      else raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8(
        '%.ColumnsToJSON: invalid ColumnType(%)=%',[self,col,ord(ColumnType(col))]);
    end;
    WR.Add(',');
  end;
  WR.CancelLastComma; // cancel last ','
  if WR.Expand then
    WR.Add('}');
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.ColumnToSQLVar(Col: Integer; var Value: TSQLVar;
  var Temp: RawByteString);
begin
  Value.Options := [];
  if ColumnNull(Col) then // will call GetCol() to check Col
    Value.VType := ftNull else
    Value.VType := ColumnType(Col);
  case Value.VType of
    ftInt64:    Value.VInt64  := ColumnInt(Col);
    ftDouble:   Value.VDouble := ColumnDouble(Col);
    ftDate:     Value.VDateTime := ColumnDateTime(Col);
    ftCurrency: Value.VCurrency := ColumnCurrency(Col);
    ftUTF8: begin
      Temp := ColumnUTF8(Col);
      Value.VText := pointer(Temp);
    end;
    ftBlob:
    if fForceBlobAsNull then begin
      Value.VBlob := nil;
      Value.VBlobLen := 0;
      Value.VType := ftNull;
    end else begin
      Temp := ColumnBlob(Col);
      Value.VBlob := pointer(Temp);
      Value.VBlobLen := length(Temp);
    end;
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnToTypedValue(Col: integer;
  DestType: TSQLDBFieldType; var Dest): TSQLDBFieldType;
{$ifdef LVCL}
begin
  raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.ColumnToTypedValue non implemented in LVCL',[self]);
end;
{$else}
var Temp: Variant; // rely on a temporary variant value for the conversion
begin
  result := ColumnToVariant(Col,Temp);
  case DestType of
  ftInt64:    {$ifdef DELPHI5OROLDER}integer{$else}Int64{$endif}(Dest) := Temp;
  ftDouble:   Double(Dest) := Temp;
  ftCurrency: Currency(Dest) := Temp;
  ftDate:     TDateTime(Dest) := Temp;
  {$ifdef NOVARIANTS}
  ftUTF8:     RawUTF8(Dest) := StringToUTF8(string(Temp));
  {$else}
  ftUTF8:     RawUTF8(Dest) := VariantToUTF8(Temp);
  {$endif}
  ftBlob:     VariantToRawByteString(Temp,RawByteString(Dest));
  else raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.ColumnToTypedValue: Invalid Type [%]',
    [self,ToText(result)^]);
  end;
end;
{$endif}

{$ifndef LVCL}
function TSQLDBStatement.ParamToVariant(Param: Integer; var Value: Variant;
  CheckIsOutParameter: boolean=true): TSQLDBFieldType;
begin
  dec(Param); // start at #1
  if (self=nil) or (cardinal(Param)>=cardinal(fParamCount)) then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.ParamToVariant(%)',[self,Param]);
  // overridden method should fill Value with proper data
  result := ftUnknown;
end;
{$endif}

procedure TSQLDBStatement.Execute(const aSQL: RawUTF8;
  ExpectResults: Boolean);
begin
  Connection.InternalProcess(speActive);
  try
    Prepare(aSQL,ExpectResults);
    SetForceBlobAsNull(true);
    ExecutePrepared;
  finally
    Connection.InternalProcess(speNonActive);
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.FetchAllToJSON(JSON: TStream; Expanded: boolean): PtrInt;
var W: TJSONWriter;
    col: integer;
    maxmem: PtrUInt;
    tmp: TTextWriterStackBuffer;
begin
  result := 0;
  W := TJSONWriter.Create(JSON,Expanded,false,nil,0,@tmp);
  try
    Connection.InternalProcess(speActive);
    maxmem := Connection.Properties.StatementMaxMemory;
    // get col names and types
    SetLength(W.ColNames,ColumnCount);
    for col := 0 to ColumnCount-1 do
      W.ColNames[col] := ColumnName(col);
    W.AddColumns; // write or init field names for appropriate JSON Expand
    if Expanded then
      W.Add('[');
    // write rows data
    {$ifdef SYNDB_SILENCE}
    fSQLLogTimer.Resume; // log fetch duration
    {$endif}
    while Step do begin
      ColumnsToJSON(W);
      W.Add(',');
      inc(result);
      if (maxmem>0) and (W.WrittenBytes>maxmem) then // TextLength is slower
        raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.FetchAllToJSON: overflow %',
          [self, KB(maxmem)]);
    end;
    {$ifdef SYNDB_SILENCE}
    fSQLLogTimer.Pause;
    {$endif}
    ReleaseRows;
    if (result=0) and W.Expand then begin
      // we want the field names at least, even with no data (RowCount=0)
      W.Expand := false; //  {"FieldCount":2,"Values":["col1","col2"]}
      W.CancelAll;
      for col := 0 to ColumnCount-1 do
        W.ColNames[col] := ColumnName(col); // previous W.AddColumns did add ""
      W.AddColumns;
    end;
    W.EndJSONObject(0,result);
  finally
    W.Free;
    Connection.InternalProcess(speNonActive);
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.FetchAllToCSVValues(Dest: TStream; Tab: boolean;
  CommaSep: AnsiChar; AddBOM: boolean): PtrInt;
const NULL: array[boolean] of string[7] = ('"null"','null');
      BLOB: array[boolean] of string[7] = ('"blob"','blob');
var F, FMax: integer;
    maxmem: PtrUInt;
    W: TTextWriter;
    tmp: RawByteString;
    V: TSQLVar;
begin
  result := 0;
  if (Dest=nil) or (self=nil) or (ColumnCount=0) then
    exit;
  fForceBlobAsNull := true;
  if Tab then
    CommaSep := #9;
  FMax := ColumnCount-1;
  maxmem := Connection.Properties.StatementMaxMemory;
  W := TTextWriter.Create(Dest,65536);
  try
    if AddBOM then
      W.AddShort(#$ef#$bb#$bf); // add UTF-8 Byte Order Mark
    // add CSV header
    for F := 0 to FMax do begin
      if not Tab then
        W.Add('"');
      W.AddString(ColumnName(F));
      if Tab then
        W.Add(#9) else
        W.Add('"',CommaSep);
    end;
    W.CancelLastChar;
    W.AddCR;
    // add CSV rows
    {$ifdef SYNDB_SILENCE}
    fSQLLogTimer.Resume;
    {$endif}
    while Step do begin
      for F := 0 to FMax do begin
        ColumnToSQLVar(F,V,tmp);
        case V.VType of
          ftNull:     W.AddShort(NULL[tab]);
          ftInt64:    W.Add(V.VInt64);
          ftDouble:   W.AddDouble(V.VDouble);
          ftCurrency: W.AddCurr64(V.VCurrency);
          ftDate: begin
            if not Tab then
              W.Add('"');
            W.AddDateTime(V.VDateTime,svoDateWithMS in V.Options);
            if not Tab then
              W.Add('"');
          end;
          ftUTF8: begin
            if not Tab then begin
              W.Add('"');
              W.AddJSONEscape(V.VText);
              W.Add('"');
            end else
              W.AddNoJSONEscape(V.VText);
          end;
          ftBlob: W.AddShort(BLOB[Tab]);  // ForceBlobAsNull should be true
          else raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8(
            '%.FetchAllToCSVValues: Invalid ColumnType(%) %',
            [self,F,ToText(ColumnType(F))^]);
        end;
        if F=FMax then
          W.AddCR else
          W.Add(CommaSep);
      end;
      inc(result);
      if (maxmem>0) and (W.WrittenBytes>maxmem) then // TextLength is slower
        raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.FetchAllToCSVValues: overflow %',
          [self, KB(maxmem)]);
    end;
    {$ifdef SYNDB_SILENCE}
    fSQLLogTimer.Pause;
    {$endif}
    ReleaseRows;
    W.FlushFinal;
  finally
    W.Free;
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.FetchAllAsJSON(Expanded: boolean;
  ReturnedRowCount: PPtrInt): RawUTF8;
var Stream: TRawByteStringStream;
    RowCount: PtrInt;
begin
  Stream := TRawByteStringStream.Create;
  try
    RowCount := FetchAllToJSON(Stream,Expanded);
    if ReturnedRowCount<>nil then
      ReturnedRowCount^ := RowCount;
    result := Stream.DataString;
  finally
    Stream.Free;
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.ColumnsToBinary(W: TFileBufferWriter;
  Null: pointer; const ColTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypeDynArray);
var F: integer;
    VDouble: double;
    VCurrency: currency absolute VDouble;
    VDateTime: TDateTime absolute VDouble;
    ft: TSQLDBFieldType;
begin
  for F := 0 to length(ColTypes)-1 do
    if not GetBitPtr(Null, F) then begin
      ft := ColTypes[F];
      if ft<ftInt64 then begin // ftUnknown,ftNull
        ft := ColumnType(F); // per-row column type (SQLite3 only)
        W.Write1(ord(ft));
      end;
      case ft of
      ftInt64:
        W.WriteVarInt64(ColumnInt(F));
      ftDouble: begin
        VDouble := ColumnDouble(F);
        W.Write(@VDouble,sizeof(VDouble));
      end;
      ftCurrency: begin
        VCurrency := ColumnCurrency(F);
        W.Write(@VCurrency,sizeof(VCurrency));
      end;
      ftDate: begin
        VDateTime := ColumnDateTime(F);
        W.Write(@VDateTime,sizeof(VDateTime));
      end;
      ftUTF8:
        W.Write(ColumnUTF8(F));
      ftBlob:
        W.Write(ColumnBlob(F));
      else
      raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.ColumnsToBinary: Invalid ColumnType(%)=%',
        [self,ColumnName(F),ord(ft)]);
    end;
  end;
end;

const
  FETCHALLTOBINARY_MAGIC = 1;

function TSQLDBStatement.FetchAllToBinary(Dest: TStream; MaxRowCount: cardinal;
  DataRowPosition: PCardinalDynArray): cardinal;
var F, FMax, FieldSize, NullRowSize: integer;
    StartPos, MaxMem: Int64;
    W: TFileBufferWriter;
    ft: TSQLDBFieldType;
    ColTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypeDynArray;
    Null: TByteDynArray;
begin
  result := 0;
  MaxMem := Connection.Properties.StatementMaxMemory;
  W := TFileBufferWriter.Create(Dest);
  try
    W.WriteVarUInt32(FETCHALLTOBINARY_MAGIC);
    FMax := ColumnCount;
    W.WriteVarUInt32(FMax);
    if FMax>0 then begin
      // write column description
      SetLength(ColTypes,FMax);
      dec(FMax);
      for F := 0 to FMax do begin
        W.Write(ColumnName(F));
        ft := ColumnType(F,@FieldSize);
        if (ft=ftUnknown) and (CurrentRow=0) and Step then
          ft := ColumnType(F,@FieldSize); // e.g. SQLite3 -> fetch and guess
        ColTypes[F] := ft;
        W.Write1(ord(ft));
        W.WriteVarUInt32(FieldSize);
      end;
      // initialize null handling
      SetLength(Null,(FMax shr 3)+1);
      NullRowSize := 0;
      // save all data rows
      StartPos := W.TotalWritten;
      if (CurrentRow=1) or Step then // Step may already be done (e.g. TQuery.Open)
      repeat
        // save row position in DataRowPosition[] (if any)
        if DataRowPosition<>nil then begin
          if Length(DataRowPosition^)<=integer(result) then
            SetLength(DataRowPosition^,NextGrow(result));
          DataRowPosition^[result] := W.TotalWritten-StartPos;
        end;
        // first write null columns flags
        if NullRowSize>0 then begin
          FillCharFast(Null[0],NullRowSize,0);
          NullRowSize := 0;
        end;
        for F := 0 to FMax do
          if ColumnNull(F) then begin
            SetBitPtr(pointer(Null),F);
            NullRowSize := (F shr 3)+1;
          end;
        if NullRowSize>0 then begin
          W.WriteVarUInt32(NullRowSize);
          W.Write(pointer(Null),NullRowSize);
        end else
          W.Write1(0); // = W.WriteVarUInt32(0)
        // then write data values
        ColumnsToBinary(W,pointer(Null),ColTypes);
        inc(result);
        if (MaxMem>0) and (W.TotalWritten>MaxMem) then // Stream.Position is slower
          raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.FetchAllToBinary: overflow %',
            [self, KB(MaxMem)]);
        if (MaxRowCount>0) and (result>=MaxRowCount) then
          break;
      until not Step;
      ReleaseRows;
    end;
    W.Write(@result,SizeOf(result)); // fixed size at the end for row count
    W.Flush;
  finally
    W.Free;
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.Execute(const aSQL: RawUTF8;
  ExpectResults: Boolean; const Params: array of const);
begin
  Connection.InternalProcess(speActive);
  try
    Prepare(aSQL,ExpectResults);
    Bind(Params);
    ExecutePrepared;
  finally
    Connection.InternalProcess(speNonActive);
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.Execute(const SQLFormat: RawUTF8;
  ExpectResults: Boolean; const Args, Params: array of const);
begin
  Execute(FormatUTF8(SQLFormat,Args),ExpectResults,Params);
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.UpdateCount: integer;
begin
  result := 0;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.ExecutePreparedAndFetchAllAsJSON(Expanded: boolean; out JSON: RawUTF8);
begin
  ExecutePrepared;
  JSON := FetchAllAsJSON(Expanded);
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnString(Col: integer): string;
begin
  Result := UTF8ToString(ColumnUTF8(Col));
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnString(const ColName: RawUTF8): string;
begin
  result := ColumnString(ColumnIndex(ColName));
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnBlob(const ColName: RawUTF8): RawByteString;
begin
  result := ColumnBlob(ColumnIndex(ColName));
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnBlobBytes(const ColName: RawUTF8): TBytes;
begin
  result := ColumnBlobBytes(ColumnIndex(ColName));
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.ColumnBlobToStream(const ColName: RawUTF8; Stream: TStream);
begin
  ColumnBlobToStream(ColumnIndex(ColName),Stream);
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.ColumnBlobFromStream(const ColName: RawUTF8; Stream: TStream);
begin
  ColumnBlobFromStream(ColumnIndex(ColName),Stream);
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnCurrency(const ColName: RawUTF8): currency;
begin
  result := ColumnCurrency(ColumnIndex(ColName));
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnDateTime(const ColName: RawUTF8): TDateTime;
begin
  result := ColumnDateTime(ColumnIndex(ColName));
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnDouble(const ColName: RawUTF8): double;
begin
  result := ColumnDouble(ColumnIndex(ColName));
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnInt(const ColName: RawUTF8): Int64;
begin
  result := ColumnInt(ColumnIndex(ColName));
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnUTF8(const ColName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8;
begin
  result := ColumnUTF8(ColumnIndex(ColName));
end;

{$ifndef LVCL}
function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnVariant(const ColName: RawUTF8): Variant;
begin
  ColumnToVariant(ColumnIndex(ColName),result);
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.GetColumnVariant(const ColName: RawUTF8): Variant;
begin
  ColumnToVariant(ColumnIndex(ColName),result);
end;
{$endif LVCL}

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnCursor(const ColName: RawUTF8): ISQLDBRows;
begin
  result := ColumnCursor(ColumnIndex(ColName));
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnCursor(Col: integer): ISQLDBRows;
begin
  raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('% does not support CURSOR columns',[self]);
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.Instance: TSQLDBStatement;
begin
  Result := Self;
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.SQLLogBegin(level: TSynLogInfo): TSynLog;
begin
  if level = sllDB then // prepare
    fSQLLogTimer.Start else
    fSQLLogTimer.Resume;
  {$ifdef SYNDB_SILENCE}
  result := nil;
  {$else}
  result := SynDBLog.Add;
  if result <> nil then
    if level in result.Family.Level then
    begin
      fSQLLogLevel := level;
      if level = sllSQL then
        ComputeSQLWithInlinedParams;
    end
    else
      result := nil;
  fSQLLogLog := result;
  {$endif}
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.SQLLogEnd(msg: PShortString): Int64;
{$ifndef SYNDB_SILENCE}
var tmp: TShort16;
{$endif}
begin
  fSQLLogTimer.Pause;
  {$ifdef SYNDB_SILENCE}
  result := fSQLLogTimer.LastTimeInMicroSec;
  {$else}
  result := 0;
  if fSQLLogLog=nil then
    exit;
  tmp[0] := #0;
  if fSQLLogLevel=sllSQL then begin
    if msg=nil then begin
      if not fExpectResults then
        FormatShort16(' wr=%',[UpdateCount],tmp);
      msg := @tmp;
    end;
    fSQLLogLog.Log(fSQLLogLevel, 'ExecutePrepared %% %',
      [fSQLLogTimer.Time, msg^, fSQLWithInlinedParams], self)
  end
  else begin
    if msg=nil then
      msg := @tmp;
    fSQLLogLog.Log(fSQLLogLevel, 'Prepare %% %', [fSQLLogTimer.Stop, msg^, fSQL], self);
  end;
  result := fSQLLogTimer.LastTimeInMicroSec;
  fSQLLogLog := nil;
  {$endif}
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.SQLLogEnd(const Fmt: RawUTF8; const Args: array of const): Int64;
var tmp: shortstring;
begin
  tmp[0] := #0;
  {$ifndef SYNDB_SILENCE}
  result := 0;
  if fSQLLogLog=nil then
    exit;
  if Fmt<>'' then
    FormatShort(Fmt,Args,tmp);
  {$endif}
  result := SQLLogEnd(@tmp);
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.GetSQLCurrent: RawUTF8;
begin
  if fSQLPrepared <> '' then
    Result := fSQLPrepared else
    Result := fSQL;
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.GetSQLWithInlinedParams: RawUTF8;
begin
  if fSQL='' then
    result := '' else begin
    if fSQLWithInlinedParams='' then
      ComputeSQLWithInlinedParams;
    result := fSQLWithInlinedParams;
  end;
end;

function GotoNextParam(P: PUTF8Char): PUTF8Char;
  {$ifdef HASINLINE} inline; {$endif}
var c: AnsiChar;
begin
  repeat
    c := P^;
    if (c=#0) or (c='?') then
      break;
    if (c='''') and (P[1]<>'''') then begin
      repeat // ignore ? inside ' quotes
        inc(P);
        c := P^;
      until (c=#0) or ((c='''') and (P[1]<>''''));
      if c=#0 then
        break;
    end;
    inc(P);
  until false;
  result := P;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.ComputeSQLWithInlinedParams;
var P,B: PUTF8Char;
    num: integer;
    maxSize,maxAllowed: cardinal;
    W: TTextWriter;
    tmp: TTextWriterStackBuffer;
begin
  fSQLWithInlinedParams := fSQL;
  if fConnection=nil then
    maxSize := 0 else
    maxSize := fConnection.fProperties.fLoggedSQLMaxSize;
  if (integer(maxSize)<0) or (PosExChar('?',fSQL)=0) then
    // maxsize=-1 -> log statement without any parameter value (just ?)
    exit;
  P := pointer(fSQL);
  num := 1;
  W := nil;
  try
    repeat
      B := P;
      P := GotoNextParam(P);
      if W=nil then
        if P^=#0 then
          exit else
          W := TTextWriter.CreateOwnedStream(tmp);
      W.AddNoJSONEscape(B,P-B);
      if P^=#0 then
        break;
      inc(P); // jump P^='?'
      if maxSize>0 then
        maxAllowed := W.TextLength-maxSize else
        maxAllowed := maxInt;
      AddParamValueAsText(num,W,maxAllowed);
      inc(num);
    until (P^=#0) or ((maxSize>0) and (W.TextLength>=maxSize));
    W.SetText(fSQLWithInlinedParams);
  finally
    W.Free;
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.AddParamValueAsText(Param: integer; Dest: TTextWriter;
  MaxCharCount: integer);
  procedure AppendUnicode(W: PWideChar; WLen: integer);
  var tmp: TSynTempBuffer;
  begin
    if MaxCharCount<WLen then
      WLen := MaxCharCount;
    tmp.Init(WLen);
    try
      RawUnicodeToUtf8(tmp.buf,tmp.Len,W,WLen,[ccfNoTrailingZero]);
      Dest.AddQuotedStr(tmp.buf,'''',MaxCharCount);
    finally
      tmp.Done;
    end;
  end;
var v: variant;
    ft: TSQLDBFieldType;
begin
  ft := ParamToVariant(Param,v,false);
  with TVarData(v) do
    case cardinal(VType) of
      varString:
        if ft=ftBlob then
          Dest.AddU(length(RawByteString(VString))) else
          Dest.AddQuotedStr(VString,'''',MaxCharCount);
      varOleStr:
        AppendUnicode(VString, length(WideString(VString)));
      {$ifdef HASVARUSTRING}
      varUString:
        AppendUnicode(VString, length(UnicodeString(VString)));
      {$endif}
      else if (ft=ftDate) and (cardinal(VType) in [varDouble,varDate]) then
        Dest.AddDateTime(vdate) else
        Dest.AddVariant(v);
    end;
end;

{$ifndef DELPHI5OROLDER}
{$ifndef LVCL}
var
  SQLDBRowVariantType: TCustomVariantType = nil;

function TSQLDBStatement.RowData: Variant;
begin
  if SQLDBRowVariantType=nil then
    SQLDBRowVariantType := SynRegisterCustomVariantType(TSQLDBRowVariantType);
  VarClear(result);
  with TVarData(result) do begin
    VType := SQLDBRowVariantType.VarType;
    VPointer := self;
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.RowDocVariant(out aDocument: variant;
  aOptions: TDocVariantOptions);
var n,F: integer;
    names: TRawUTF8DynArray;
    values: TVariantDynArray;
begin
  n := ColumnCount;
  SetLength(names,n); // faster to assign internal arrays per reference
  SetLength(values,n);
  for F := 0 to n-1 do begin
    names[F] := ColumnName(F);
    ColumnToVariant(F,values[F]);
  end;
  TDocVariantData(aDocument).InitObjectFromVariants(names,values,aOptions);
end;

{$endif}
{$endif}

procedure TSQLDBStatement.Prepare(const aSQL: RawUTF8; ExpectResults: Boolean);
var L: integer;
begin
  Connection.InternalProcess(speActive);
  try
    L := length(aSQL);
    if StripSemicolon then
      if (L>5) and (aSQL[L]=';') and // avoid syntax error for some drivers
         not IdemPChar(@aSQL[L-4],' END') then
        fSQL := copy(aSQL,1,L-1) else
        fSQL := aSQL else
      fSQL := aSQL;
    fExpectResults := ExpectResults;
    if (fConnection<>nil) and not fConnection.IsConnected then
      fConnection.Connect;
  finally
    Connection.InternalProcess(speNonActive);
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.ExecutePrepared;
begin
  if fConnection<>nil then
    fConnection.fLastAccessTicks := GetTickCount64;
  // a do-nothing default method
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.Reset;
begin
  fSQLWithInlinedParams := '';
  fSQLLogTimer.Init; // reset timer (for cached statement for example)
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.ReleaseRows;
begin
  fSQLWithInlinedParams := '';
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.ColumnsToSQLInsert(const TableName: RawUTF8;
  var Fields: TSQLDBColumnCreateDynArray): RawUTF8;
var F,size: integer;
begin
  Result := '';
  if (self=nil) or (TableName='') then
    exit;
  SetLength(Fields,ColumnCount);
  if Fields=nil then
    exit;
  Result := 'insert into '+TableName+' (';
  for F := 0 to high(Fields) do begin
    Fields[F].Name := ColumnName(F);
    Fields[F].DBType := ColumnType(F,@size);
    Fields[F].Width := size;
    case Fields[F].DBType of
    ftNull:
      Fields[F].DBType := ftBlob; // if not identified, assume it is a BLOB
    ftUnknown:
      raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8(
        '%.ColumnsToSQLInsert: Invalid column %',[self,Fields[F].Name]);
    end;
    Result := Result+Fields[F].Name+',';
  end;
  Result[length(Result)] := ')';
  Result := Result+' values (';
  for F := 0 to high(Fields) do
    Result := Result+'?,'; // MUCH faster with a prepared statement
  Result[length(Result)] := ')';
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.BindFromRows(
  const Fields: TSQLDBFieldTypeDynArray; Rows: TSQLDBStatement);
var F: integer;
begin
  if (self<>nil) and (Fields<>nil) and (Rows<>nil) then
    for F := 0 to high(Fields) do
      if Rows.ColumnNull(F) then
        BindNull(F+1) else
      case Fields[F] of
        ftNull:     BindNull(F+1);
        ftInt64:    Bind(F+1,Rows.ColumnInt(F));
        ftDouble:   Bind(F+1,Rows.ColumnDouble(F));
        ftCurrency: BindCurrency(F+1,Rows.ColumnCurrency(F));
        ftDate:     BindDateTime(F+1,Rows.ColumnDateTime(F));
        ftUTF8:     BindTextU(F+1,Rows.ColumnUTF8(F));
        ftBlob:     BindBlob(F+1,Rows.ColumnBlob(F));
      end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatement.BindCursor(Param: integer);
begin
  raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('% does not support CURSOR parameter',[self]);
end;

function TSQLDBStatement.BoundCursor(Param: Integer): ISQLDBRows;
begin
  raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('% does not support CURSOR parameter',[self]);
end;


{$ifndef DELPHI5OROLDER}
{$ifndef LVCL}

{ TSQLDBRowVariantType }

function TSQLDBRowVariantType.IntGet(var Dest: TVarData;
  const Instance: TVarData; Name: PAnsiChar; NameLen: PtrInt): boolean;
var Rows: TSQLDBStatement;
    col: RawUTF8;
    ndx: integer;
begin
  Rows := TSQLDBStatement(Instance.VPointer);
  if Rows=nil then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Invalid % call',[self]);
  FastSetString(col,Name,NameLen);
  ndx := Rows.ColumnIndex(col);
  result := ndx>=0;
  if ndx>=0 then
    Rows.ColumnToVariant(ndx,Variant(Dest));
end;

{$endif LVCL}
{$endif DELPHI5OROLDER}


{ TSQLDBStatementWithParams }

function TSQLDBStatementWithParams.CheckParam(Param: Integer;
  NewType: TSQLDBFieldType; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType): PSQLDBParam;
begin
  if self=nil then
    raise ESQLDBException.Create('self=nil for TSQLDBStatement.Bind*()');
  if Param>fParamCount then
    fParam.Count := Param; // resize fParams[] dynamic array if necessary
  result := @fParams[Param-1];
  result^.VType := NewType;
  result^.VInOut := IO;
end;

function TSQLDBStatementWithParams.CheckParam(Param: Integer;
  NewType: TSQLDBFieldType; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType; ArrayCount: integer): PSQLDBParam;
begin
  result := CheckParam(Param,NewType,IO);
  if (NewType in [ftUnknown,ftNull]) or (fConnection=nil) or
     (fConnection.fProperties.BatchSendingAbilities*[cCreate,cUpdate,cDelete]=[]) then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Invalid call to %.BindArray(Param=%,Type=%)',
      [self,Param,ToText(NewType)^]);
  SetLength(result^.VArray,ArrayCount);
  result^.VInt64 := ArrayCount;
  fParamsArrayCount := ArrayCount;
end;

constructor TSQLDBStatementWithParams.Create(aConnection: TSQLDBConnection);
begin
  inherited Create(aConnection);
  fParam.Init(TypeInfo(TSQLDBParamDynArray),fParams,@fParamCount);
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.Bind(Param: Integer; Value: double;
  IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType);
begin
  CheckParam(Param,ftDouble,IO)^.VInt64 := PInt64(@Value)^;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.Bind(Param: Integer; Value: Int64;
  IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType);
begin
  CheckParam(Param,ftInt64,IO)^.VInt64 := Value;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindBlob(Param: Integer;
  const Data: RawByteString; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType);
begin
  CheckParam(Param,ftBlob,IO)^.VData := Data;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindBlob(Param: Integer; Data: pointer;
  Size: integer; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType);
begin
  SetString(CheckParam(Param,ftBlob,IO)^.VData,PAnsiChar(Data),Size);
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindCurrency(Param: Integer;
  Value: currency; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType);
begin
  CheckParam(Param,ftCurrency,IO)^.VInt64 := PInt64(@Value)^;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindDateTime(Param: Integer;
  Value: TDateTime; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType);
begin
  CheckParam(Param,ftDate,IO)^.VInt64 := PInt64(@Value)^;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindNull(Param: Integer;
  IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType; BoundType: TSQLDBFieldType);
begin
  CheckParam(Param,ftNull,IO);
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindTextS(Param: Integer;
  const Value: string; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType);
begin
  if (Value='') and (fConnection<>nil) and fConnection.fProperties.StoreVoidStringAsNull then
    CheckParam(Param,ftNull,IO) else
    CheckParam(Param,ftUTF8,IO)^.VData := StringToUTF8(Value);
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindTextU(Param: Integer;
  const Value: RawUTF8; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType);
begin
  if (Value='') and (fConnection<>nil) and fConnection.fProperties.StoreVoidStringAsNull then
    CheckParam(Param,ftNull,IO) else
    CheckParam(Param,ftUTF8,IO)^.VData := Value;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindTextP(Param: Integer;
  Value: PUTF8Char; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType);
begin
  if (Value=nil) and (fConnection<>nil) and fConnection.fProperties.StoreVoidStringAsNull then
    CheckParam(Param,ftNull,IO) else
    FastSetString(RawUTF8(CheckParam(Param,ftUTF8,IO)^.VData),Value,StrLen(Value));
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindTextW(Param: Integer;
  const Value: WideString; IO: TSQLDBParamInOutType);
begin
  if (Value='') and (fConnection<>nil) and fConnection.fProperties.StoreVoidStringAsNull then
    CheckParam(Param,ftNull,IO) else
    CheckParam(Param,ftUTF8,IO)^.VData := RawUnicodeToUtf8(pointer(Value),length(Value));
end;

{$ifndef LVCL}
function TSQLDBStatementWithParams.ParamToVariant(Param: Integer;
  var Value: Variant; CheckIsOutParameter: boolean): TSQLDBFieldType;
begin
  inherited ParamToVariant(Param,Value); // raise exception if Param incorrect
  dec(Param); // start at #1
  if CheckIsOutParameter and (fParams[Param].VInOut=paramIn) then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.ParamToVariant expects an [In]Out parameter',[self]);
  // OleDB provider should have already modified the parameter in-place, i.e.
  // in our fParams[] buffer, especialy for TEXT parameters (OleStr/WideString)
  // -> we have nothing to do but return the current value! :)
  with fParams[Param] do begin
    result := VType;
    if VArray=nil then
      case VType of
        ftInt64:     Value := {$ifdef DELPHI5OROLDER}integer{$endif}(VInt64);
        ftDouble:    Value := unaligned(PDouble(@VInt64)^);
        ftCurrency:  Value := PCurrency(@VInt64)^;
        ftDate:      Value := PDateTime(@VInt64)^;
        ftUTF8:      RawUTF8ToVariant(RawUTF8(VData),Value);
        ftBlob:      RawByteStringToVariant(VData,Value);
        else         SetVariantNull(Value)
      end else SetVariantNull(Value);
  end;
end;
{$endif}

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.AddParamValueAsText(Param: integer; Dest: TTextWriter;
  MaxCharCount: integer);
begin
  dec(Param);
  if cardinal(Param)>=cardinal(fParamCount) then
    Dest.AddShort('null') else
    with fParams[Param] do
    if VArray=nil then
      case VType of
        ftInt64:    Dest.Add({$ifdef DELPHI5OROLDER}integer{$endif}(VInt64));
        ftDouble:   Dest.AddDouble(unaligned(PDouble(@VInt64)^));
        ftCurrency: Dest.AddCurr64(VInt64);
        ftDate:     Dest.AddDateTime(PDateTime(@VInt64),' ','''');
        ftUTF8:     Dest.AddQuotedStr(pointer(VData),'''',MaxCharCount);
        ftBlob:     Dest.AddU(length(VData));
        else        Dest.AddShort('null');
      end
      else Dest.AddString(VArray[0]); // first item is enough in the logs
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindArray(Param: Integer;
  const Values: array of double);
var i: PtrInt;
begin
  with CheckParam(Param,ftDouble,paramIn,length(Values))^ do
    for i := 0 to high(Values) do
      VArray[i] := DoubleToStr(Values[i]);
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindArray(Param: Integer;
  const Values: array of Int64);
var i: PtrInt;
begin
  with CheckParam(Param,ftInt64,paramIn,length(Values))^ do
    for i := 0 to high(Values) do
      VArray[i] := Int64ToUtf8(Values[i]);
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindArray(Param: Integer;
  ParamType: TSQLDBFieldType; const Values: TRawUTF8DynArray; ValuesCount: integer);
var i: PtrInt;
    ChangeFirstChar: AnsiChar;
    p: PSQLDBParam;
begin
  inherited; // raise an exception in case of invalid parameter
  if fConnection=nil then
    ChangeFirstChar := 'T' else
    ChangeFirstChar := Connection.Properties.DateTimeFirstChar;
  p := CheckParam(Param,ParamType,paramIn);
  p^.VInt64 := ValuesCount;
  p^.VArray := Values; // immediate COW reference-counted assignment
  if (ParamType=ftDate) and (ChangeFirstChar<>'T') then
    for i := 0 to ValuesCount-1 do // fix e.g. for PostgreSQL
      if (p^.VArray[i]<>'') and (p^.VArray[i][1]='''') then
        // not only replace 'T'->ChangeFirstChar, but force expanded format
        DateTimeToIso8601(Iso8601ToDateTime(p^.VArray[i]),
          {expanded=}true, ChangeFirstChar, {ms=}fForceDateWithMS, '''');
  fParamsArrayCount := ValuesCount;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindArray(Param: Integer;
  const Values: array of RawUTF8);
var i: PtrInt;
    StoreVoidStringAsNull: boolean;
begin
  StoreVoidStringAsNull := (fConnection<>nil) and
    fConnection.Properties.StoreVoidStringAsNull;
  with CheckParam(Param,ftUTF8,paramIn,length(Values))^ do
    for i := 0 to high(Values) do
      if StoreVoidStringAsNull and (Values[i]='') then
        VArray[i] := 'null' else
        QuotedStr(Values[i],'''',VArray[i]);
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindArrayCurrency(Param: Integer;
  const Values: array of currency);
var i: PtrInt;
begin
  with CheckParam(Param,ftCurrency,paramIn,length(Values))^ do
    for i := 0 to high(Values) do
      VArray[i] := Curr64ToStr(PInt64(@Values[i])^);
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindArrayDateTime(Param: Integer;
  const Values: array of TDateTime);
var i: PtrInt;
begin
  with CheckParam(Param,ftDate,paramIn,length(Values))^ do
    for i := 0 to high(Values) do
      VArray[i] := Connection.Properties.SQLDateToIso8601Quoted(Values[i]);
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindArrayRowPrepare(
  const aParamTypes: array of TSQLDBFieldType; aExpectedMinimalRowCount: integer);
var i: PtrInt;
begin
  fParam.Count := 0;
  for i := 0 to high(aParamTypes) do
    CheckParam(i+1,aParamTypes[i],paramIn,aExpectedMinimalRowCount);
  fParamsArrayCount := 0;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindArrayRow(const aValues: array of const);
var i: PtrInt;
begin
  if length(aValues)<>fParamCount then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateFmt('Invalid %.BindArrayRow call',[self]);
  for i := 0 to high(aValues) do
    with fParams[i] do begin
      if length(VArray)<=fParamsArrayCount then
        SetLength(VArray,NextGrow(fParamsArrayCount));
      VInt64 := fParamsArrayCount;
      if (VType=ftDate) and (aValues[i].VType=vtExtended) then
        VArray[fParamsArrayCount] := // direct binding of TDateTime value
          Connection.Properties.SQLDateToIso8601Quoted(aValues[i].VExtended^) else begin
        VarRecToUTF8(aValues[i],VArray[fParamsArrayCount]);
        case VType of
        ftUTF8:
          if (VArray[fParamsArrayCount]='') and (fConnection<>nil) and
             fConnection.Properties.StoreVoidStringAsNull then
          VArray[fParamsArrayCount] := 'null' else
          VArray[fParamsArrayCount] := QuotedStr(VArray[fParamsArrayCount]);
        ftDate:
          VArray[fParamsArrayCount] := QuotedStr(VArray[fParamsArrayCount]);
        end;
      end;
    end;
  inc(fParamsArrayCount);
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.BindFromRows(Rows: TSQLDBStatement);
var F: PtrInt;
    U: RawUTF8;
begin
  if Rows<>nil then
    if Rows.ColumnCount<>fParamCount then
      raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Invalid %.BindFromRows call',[self]) else
    for F := 0 to fParamCount-1 do
    with fParams[F] do begin
      if length(VArray)<=fParamsArrayCount then
        SetLength(VArray,NextGrow(fParamsArrayCount));
      if Rows.ColumnNull(F) then
        VArray[fParamsArrayCount] := 'null' else
      case Rows.ColumnType(F) of
        ftNull:
          VArray[fParamsArrayCount] := 'null';
        ftInt64:
          VArray[fParamsArrayCount] := Int64ToUtf8(Rows.ColumnInt(F));
        ftDouble:
          VArray[fParamsArrayCount] := DoubleToStr(Rows.ColumnDouble(F));
        ftCurrency:
          VArray[fParamsArrayCount] := CurrencyToStr(Rows.ColumnCurrency(F));
        ftDate:
          VArray[fParamsArrayCount] := ''''+DateTimeToSQL(Rows.ColumnDateTime(F))+'''';
        ftUTF8: begin
          U := Rows.ColumnUTF8(F);
          if (U='') and (fConnection<>nil) and fConnection.Properties.StoreVoidStringAsNull then
            VArray[fParamsArrayCount] := 'null' else
            VArray[fParamsArrayCount] := QuotedStr(U,'''');
        end;
        ftBlob:
          VArray[fParamsArrayCount] := Rows.ColumnBlob(F);
      end;
    end;
  inc(fParamsArrayCount);
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.Reset;
begin
  fParam.Clear;
  fParamsArrayCount := 0;
  inherited Reset;
end;

procedure TSQLDBStatementWithParams.ReleaseRows;
var i: PtrInt;
    p: PSQLDBParam;
begin
  p := pointer(fParams);
  if p<>nil then
    for i := 1 to fParamCount do begin
      if p^.VData<>'' then
        p^.VData := ''; // release bound value, but keep fParams[] reusable
      if p^.VArray<>nil then
        RawUTF8DynArrayClear(p^.VArray);
      inc(p);
    end;
  inherited ReleaseRows;
end;


{ TSQLDBStatementWithParamsAndColumns }

function TSQLDBStatementWithParamsAndColumns.ColumnIndex(const aColumnName: RawUTF8): integer;
begin
  result := fColumn.FindHashed(aColumnName);
end;

function TSQLDBStatementWithParamsAndColumns.ColumnName(Col: integer): RawUTF8;
begin
  CheckCol(Col);
  result := fColumns[Col].ColumnName;
end;

function TSQLDBStatementWithParamsAndColumns.ColumnType(Col: integer; FieldSize: PInteger=nil): TSQLDBFieldType;
begin
  with fColumns[Col] do begin
    result := ColumnType;
    if FieldSize<>nil then
      if ColumnValueInlined then
        FieldSize^ := ColumnValueDBSize else
        FieldSize^ := 0;
  end;
end;

constructor TSQLDBStatementWithParamsAndColumns.Create(aConnection: TSQLDBConnection);
begin
  inherited Create(aConnection);
  fColumn.InitSpecific(TypeInfo(TSQLDBColumnPropertyDynArray),
    fColumns,djRawUTF8,@fColumnCount,True);
end;


procedure LogTruncatedColumn(const Col: TSQLDBColumnProperty);
begin
  SynDBLog.Add.Log(sllDB,'Truncated column %',Col.ColumnName);
end;

function TrimLeftSchema(const TableName: RawUTF8): RawUTF8;
var i,j: integer;
begin
  j := 1;
  repeat
    i := PosEx('.',TableName,j);
    if i=0 then break;
    j := i+1;
  until false;
  if j=1 then
    result := TableName else
    result := copy(TableName,j,maxInt);
end;

function ReplaceParamsByNames(const aSQL: RawUTF8; var aNewSQL: RawUTF8;
  aStripSemicolon: boolean): integer;
var i,j,B,L: PtrInt;
    P: PAnsiChar;
    c: array[0..3] of AnsiChar;
    tmp: RawUTF8;
const SQL_KEYWORDS: array[0..19] of AnsiChar = 'ASATBYIFINISOFONORTO';
begin
  result := 0;
  L := Length(aSQL);
  if aStripSemicolon then
    while (L>0) and (aSQL[L] in [#1..' ',';']) do
      if (aSQL[L]=';') and (L>5) and IdemPChar(@aSQL[L-3],'END') then
        break else // allows 'END;' at the end of a statement
        dec(L);    // trim ' ' or ';' right (last ';' could be found incorrect)
  if PosExChar('?',aSQL)>0 then begin
    aNewSQL:= '';
    // change ? into :AA :BA ..
    c := ':AA';
    i := 0;
    P := pointer(aSQL);
    if P<>nil then
    repeat
      B := i;
      while (i<L) and (P[i]<>'?') do begin
        if P[i]='''' then begin
          repeat // ignore chars inside ' quotes
            inc(i);
          until (i=L) or ((P[i]='''')and(P[i+1]<>''''));
          if i=L then break;
        end;
        inc(i);
      end;
      FastSetString(tmp,P+B,i-B);
      aNewSQL := aNewSQL+tmp;
      if i=L then break;
      // store :AA :BA ..
      j := length(aNewSQL);
      SetLength(aNewSQL,j+3);
      PCardinal(PtrInt(aNewSQL)+j)^ := PCardinal(@c)^;
      repeat
        if c[1]='Z' then begin
          if c[2]='Z' then
            raise ESQLDBException.Create('Parameters :AA to :ZZ');
          c[1] := 'A';
          inc(c[2]);
        end else
          inc(c[1]);
      until WordScanIndex(@SQL_KEYWORDS,length(SQL_KEYWORDS)shr 1,PWord(@c[1])^)<0;
      inc(result);
      inc(i); // jump '?'
    until i=L;
  end else
    aNewSQL := copy(aSQL,1,L); // trim right ';' if any
end;

function ReplaceParamsByNumbers(const aSQL: RawUTF8; var aNewSQL: RawUTF8;
  IndexChar: AnsiChar; AllowSemicolon: boolean): integer;
var
  ndx, L: PtrInt;
  s, d: PUTF8Char;
  c: AnsiChar;
begin
  aNewSQL := aSQL;
  result := 0;
  ndx := 0;
  L := Length(aSQL);
  s := pointer(aSQL);
  if (s = nil) or (PosExChar('?', aSQL) = 0) then
    exit;
  // calculate ? parameters count, check for ;
  while s^ <> #0 do
  begin
    c := s^;
    if c = '?' then
    begin
      inc(ndx);
      if ndx > 9 then  // ? will be replaced by $n $nn $nnn
        if ndx > 99 then
          if ndx > 999 then
            exit
          else
            inc(L, 3)
        else
          inc(L, 2)
        else
          inc(L);
    end
    else if c = '''' then
    begin
      repeat
        inc(s);
        c := s^;
        if c = #0 then
          exit; // quote without proper ending -> reject
        if c = '''' then
          if s[1] = c then
            inc(s) // ignore double quotes between single quotes
          else
            break;
      until false;
    end else if (c = ';') and not AllowSemicolon then
      exit; // complex expression can not be prepared
    inc(s);
  end;
  if ndx = 0 then // no ? parameter
    exit;
  result := ndx;
  // parse SQL and replace ? into $n $nn $nnn
  FastSetString(aNewSQL, nil, L);
  s := pointer(aSQL);
  d := pointer(aNewSQL);
  ndx := 0;
  repeat
    c := s^;
    if c = '?' then
    begin
      d^ := IndexChar; // e.g. '$'
      inc(d);
      inc(ndx);
      d := Append999ToBuffer(d, ndx);
    end
    else if c = '''' then
    begin
      repeat // ignore double quotes between single quotes
        d^ := c;
        inc(d);
        inc(s);
        c := s^;
        if c = '''' then
          if s[1] = c then
          begin
            d^ := c;
            inc(d);
            inc(s) // ignore double quotes between single quotes
          end
          else
            break;
      until false;
      d^ := c; // store last '''
      inc(d);
    end
    else
    begin
      d^ := c;
      inc(d);
    end;
    inc(s);
  until s^ = #0;
  //assert(d - pointer(aNewSQL) = length(aNewSQL)); // until stabilized
end;

function BoundArrayToJSONArray(const Values: TRawUTF8DynArray): RawUTF8;
//  'one', 't"wo' -> '{"one","t\"wo"}'  and  1,2,3 -> '{1,2,3}'
var
  V: ^RawUTF8;
  s, d: PUTF8Char;
  L, vl, n: PtrInt;
  c: AnsiChar;
label
  _dq;
begin
  result := '';
  n := length(Values);
  if n = 0 then
    exit;
  L := 1; // trailing '{'
  inc(L, n); // ',' after each element - and ending '}'
  v := pointer(Values);
  repeat
    vl := length(v^);
    if vl <> 0 then
    begin
      inc(L, vl);
      s := pointer(v^);
      if s^ = '''' then
      begin // quoted ftUTF8
        dec(vl, 2);
        if vl > 0 then
          repeat
            inc(s);
            c := s^;
            if c = '''' then
            begin
              if s[1] = '''' then
                dec(L); // double ' into single '
            end
            else if (c = '"') or (c = '\') then
              inc(L); // escape \ before "
            dec(vl);
          until vl = 0;
      end;
    end;
    inc(v);
    dec(n);
  until n = 0;
  FastSetString(result, nil, L);
  d := pointer(result);
  d^ := '{';
  inc(d);
  v := pointer(Values);
  n := length(Values);
  repeat
    vl := length(v^);
    if vl <> 0 then
    begin
      s := pointer(v^);
      if s^ = '''' then // quoted ftUTF8
      begin
        d^ := '"';
        inc(d);
        dec(vl, 2);
        if vl > 0 then
          repeat
            inc(s);
            c := s^;
            if c = '''' then
            begin
              if s[1] = '''' then
                goto _dq; // double ' into single '
            end
            else if (c = '"') or (c = '\') then
            begin
              d^ := '\'; // escape \ before "
              inc(d);
            end;
            d^ := c;
            inc(d);
_dq:        dec(vl);
          until vl = 0;
        d^ := '"';
        inc(d);
      end
      else
        repeat // regular content
          d^ := s^;
          inc(d);
          inc(s);
          dec(vl);
        until vl = 0;
    end;
    d^ := ',';
    inc(d);
    inc(v);
    dec(n);
  until n = 0;
  d[-1] := '}'; // replace last ',' by '}'
  //assert(d - pointer(result) = length(result)); // until stabilized
end;


{ TSQLDBLib }

function TSQLDBLib.TryLoadLibrary(const aLibrary: array of TFileName;
  aRaiseExceptionOnFailure: ESynExceptionClass): boolean;
var i: integer;
    lib, libs {$ifdef MSWINDOWS} , nwd, cwd {$endif}: TFileName;
begin
  for i := 0 to high(aLibrary) do begin
    lib := aLibrary[i];
    if lib = '' then
      continue;
    {$ifdef MSWINDOWS}
    nwd := ExtractFilePath(lib);
    if nwd <> '' then begin
      cwd := GetCurrentDir;
      SetCurrentDir(nwd); // search for dll dependencies in the same folder
    end;
    fHandle := SafeLoadLibrary(lib);
    if nwd <> '' then
      SetCurrentDir(cwd);
    {$else}
    fHandle := SafeLoadLibrary(lib);
    {$endif MSWINDOWS}
    if fHandle <> 0 then begin
      fLibraryPath := lib;
      result := true;
      exit;
    end;
    if libs = '' then
      libs := lib else
      libs := libs + ', ' + lib;
  end;
  result := false;
  if aRaiseExceptionOnFailure <> nil then
    raise aRaiseExceptionOnFailure.CreateUTF8(
      '%.LoadLibray failed - searched in %', [self, libs]);
end;

destructor TSQLDBLib.Destroy;
begin
  if Handle<>0 then
    FreeLibrary(Handle);
  inherited;
end;


{$ifdef WITH_PROXY}

{ TSQLDBProxyConnectionPropertiesAbstract }

procedure TSQLDBProxyConnectionPropertiesAbstract.SetInternalProperties;
var InputCredential: RawUTF8;
    token: Int64;
begin
  if fStartTransactionTimeOut=0 then
    fStartTransactionTimeOut := 2000;
  if fProtocol=nil then
    // override this method and set fProtocol before calling inherited
    fProtocol := TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocol.Create(nil);
  Process(cGetToken,self,token);
  SetLength(InputCredential,4);
  PCardinal(InputCredential)^ := fProtocol.Authenticate.ComputeHash(token,UserID,PassWord);
  InputCredential := UserID+#1+InputCredential;
  fCurrentSession := Process(cGetDBMS,InputCredential,fDBMS);
end;

destructor TSQLDBProxyConnectionPropertiesAbstract.Destroy;
begin
  try
    inherited Destroy;
    Process(cQuit,self,self);
  finally
    fProtocol.Free;
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyConnectionPropertiesAbstract.GetForeignKeys;
begin
  Process(cGetForeignKeys,self,fForeignKeys);
end;

function TSQLDBProxyConnectionPropertiesAbstract.NewConnection: TSQLDBConnection;
begin
  result := TSQLDBProxyConnection.Create(self);
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyConnectionPropertiesAbstract.GetFields(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
  out Fields: TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray);
begin
  Process(cGetFields,aTableName,Fields);
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyConnectionPropertiesAbstract.GetIndexes(const aTableName: RawUTF8;
  out Indexes: TSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray);
begin
  Process(cGetIndexes,aTableName,Indexes);
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyConnectionPropertiesAbstract.GetTableNames(out Tables: TRawUTF8DynArray);
begin
  Process(cGetTableNames,self,Tables);
end;

function TSQLDBProxyConnectionPropertiesAbstract.IsCachable(P: PUTF8Char): boolean;
begin
  result := False;
end;


{ TSQLDBRemoteConnectionPropertiesAbstract }

function TSQLDBRemoteConnectionPropertiesAbstract.Process(
  Command: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommand; const Input; var Output): integer;
var msgInput,msgOutput,msgRaw: RawByteString;
    header: TRemoteMessageHeader;
    outheader: PRemoteMessageHeader;
    InputText: RawUTF8 absolute Input;
    InputExecute: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommandExecute absolute Input;
    O: PAnsiChar;
    OutputSQLDBDefinition: TSQLDBDefinition absolute Output;
    OutputInt64: Int64 absolute Output;
    OutputBoolean: boolean absolute Output;
    OutputSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray: TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray absolute Output;
    OutputSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray: TSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray absolute Output;
    OutputRawUTF8DynArray: TRawUTF8DynArray absolute Output;
    OutputRawUTF8: RawUTF8 absolute Output;
    OutputSynNameValue: TSynNameValue absolute Output;
begin // use our optimized RecordLoadSave/DynArrayLoadSave binary serialization
  header.Magic := REMOTE_MAGIC;
  header.SessionID := fCurrentSession;
  header.Command := Command;
  SetString(msgInput,PAnsiChar(@header),sizeof(header));
  case Command of
  cGetToken, cConnect, cDisconnect, cTryStartTransaction, cCommit, cRollback,
  cServerTimestamp, cGetTableNames, cGetForeignKeys, cQuit:
    ; // no input parameters here, just the command
  cGetDBMS, cGetFields, cGetIndexes:
    msgInput := msgInput+InputText;
  cExecute, cExecuteToBinary, cExecuteToJSON, cExecuteToExpandedJSON:
    msgInput := msgInput+
      RecordSave(InputExecute,TypeInfo(TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommandExecute));
  else raise ESQLDBRemote.CreateUTF8('Unknown %.Process() input command % (%)',
        [self,ToText(Command)^,ord(Command)]);
  end;
  ProcessMessage(fProtocol.HandleOutput(msgInput),msgRaw);
  msgOutput := fProtocol.HandleInput(msgRaw);
  outheader := pointer(msgOutput);
  if (outheader=nil) or (outheader.Magic<>REMOTE_MAGIC) then
    raise ESQLDBRemote.CreateUTF8('Wrong %.Process() returned content',[self]);
  O := pointer(msgOutput);
  inc(O,sizeof(header));
  case outheader.Command of
  cGetToken, cServerTimestamp:
    OutputInt64 := PInt64(O)^;
  cGetDBMS:
    OutputSQLDBDefinition := TSQLDBDefinition(O^);
  cConnect, cDisconnect, cCommit, cRollback, cQuit:
    ; // no output parameters here
  cTryStartTransaction:
    OutputBoolean := boolean(O^);
  cGetFields:
    DynArrayLoad(OutputSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray,O,TypeInfo(TSQLDBColumnDefineDynArray));
  cGetIndexes:
    DynArrayLoad(OutputSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray,O,TypeInfo(TSQLDBIndexDefineDynArray));
  cGetTableNames:
    DynArrayLoad(OutputRawUTF8DynArray,O,TypeInfo(TRawUTF8DynArray));
  cGetForeignKeys:
    OutputSynNameValue.SetBlobDataPtr(O);
  cExecute, cExecuteToBinary, cExecuteToJSON, cExecuteToExpandedJSON:
    FastSetString(OutputRawUTF8,O,length(msgOutput)-sizeof(header));
  cExceptionRaised: // msgOutput is ExceptionClassName+#0+ExceptionMessage
    raise ESQLDBRemote.CreateUTF8('%.Process(%): server raised % with ''%''',
      [self,ToText(Command)^,O,O+StrLen(O)+1]);
  else raise ESQLDBRemote.CreateUTF8('Unknown %.Process() output command % (%)',
        [self,ToText(outheader.Command)^,ord(outheader.Command)]);
  end;
  result := outHeader.SessionID;
end;


{ TSQLDBRemoteConnectionPropertiesTest }

constructor TSQLDBRemoteConnectionPropertiesTest.Create(
  aProps: TSQLDBConnectionProperties; const aUserID,aPassword: RawUTF8;
  aProtocol: TSQLDBProxyConnectionProtocolClass);
begin
  fProps := aProps;
  fProtocol := aProtocol.Create(TSynAuthentication.Create(aUserID,aPassword));
  inherited Create('','',aUserID,aPassword);
end;

procedure TSQLDBRemoteConnectionPropertiesTest.ProcessMessage(const Input: RawByteString;
  out Output: RawByteString);
begin
  fProps.ThreadSafeConnection.RemoteProcessMessage(Input,Output,fProtocol);
end;


{ TSQLDBProxyConnection }

constructor TSQLDBProxyConnection.Create(aProperties: TSQLDBConnectionProperties);
begin
  fProxy := aProperties as TSQLDBProxyConnectionPropertiesAbstract;
  inherited Create(aProperties);
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyConnection.Commit;
begin
  inherited Commit; // dec(fTransactionCount)
  try
    fProxy.Process(cCommit,self,self);
  except
    inc(fTransactionCount); // the transaction is still active
    raise;
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyConnection.Connect;
begin
  inherited Connect;
  if fProxy.HandleConnection then
    fProxy.Process(cConnect,self,self);
  fConnected := true;
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyConnection.Disconnect;
begin
  inherited Disconnect;
  if fProxy.HandleConnection then
    fProxy.Process(cDisconnect,self,self);
  fConnected := false;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyConnection.GetServerDateTime: TDateTime;
var timestamp: TTimeLogBits;
begin
  fProxy.Process(cServerTimestamp,self,timestamp);
  result := timestamp.ToDateTime;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyConnection.IsConnected: boolean;
begin
  result := fConnected;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyConnection.NewStatement: TSQLDBStatement;
begin // always create a new proxy statement instance (cached on remote side)
  result := TSQLDBProxyStatement.Create(self);
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyConnection.Rollback;
begin
  inherited Rollback;
  fProxy.Process(cRollback,self,self);
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyConnection.StartTransaction;
var started: boolean;
    endTrial: Int64;
begin
  inherited StartTransaction;
  started := false;
  endTrial := GetTickCount64+fProxy.StartTransactionTimeOut;
  repeat
    fProxy.Process(cTryStartTransaction,self,started);
    if started or (GetTickCount64>endTrial) then
      break;
    SleepHiRes(10); // retry every 10 ms
  until false;
  if not started then begin
    inherited Rollback; // dec(fTransactionCount)
    raise ESQLDBRemote.CreateUTF8('Reached %("%/%").StartTransactionTimeOut=% ms',
      [self,fProxy.ServerName,fProxy.DatabaseName,fProxy.StartTransactionTimeOut]);
  end;
end;


{ TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract }

procedure TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract.IntHeaderProcess(Data: PByte; DataLen: integer);
var Magic,F,colCount: integer;
    p: PSQLDBColumnProperty;
begin
  fDataCurrentRowValuesStart := nil;
  fDataCurrentRowValuesSize := 0;
  fDataCurrentRowIndex := -1;
  fDataCurrentRowNull := nil;
  fDataCurrentRowNullLen := 0;
  repeat
    if DataLen<=5 then
      break; // to raise ESQLDBException
    fDataRowCount := PInteger(PtrUInt(Data)+PtrUInt(DataLen)-sizeof(Integer))^;
    Magic := FromVarUInt32(Data);
    if Magic<>FETCHALLTOBINARY_MAGIC then
      break; // corrupted
    colCount := FromVarUInt32(Data);
    SetLength(fDataCurrentRowColTypes,colCount);
    SetLength(fDataCurrentRowValues,colCount);
    fColumn.Capacity := colCount;
    for F := 0 to colCount-1 do begin
      p := fColumn.AddAndMakeUniqueName(FromVarString(Data));
      p^.ColumnType := TSQLDBFieldType(Data^);
      inc(Data);
      p^.ColumnValueDBSize := FromVarUInt32(Data);
      fDataCurrentRowColTypes[F] := p^.ColumnType;
    end;
    if fColumnCount=0 then
      exit; // no data returned
    if cardinal(fDataRowCount)>=cardinal(DataLen) then
      break; // obviously truncated
    fDataRowReaderOrigin := Data;
    fDataRowReader := Data;
    fDataRowNullSize := ((fColumnCount-1) shr 3)+1;
    SetLength(fDataCurrentRowNull,fDataRowNullSize);
    exit;
  until false;
  fDataRowCount := 0;
  fColumnCount := 0;
  raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Invalid %.IntHeaderProcess',[self]);
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract.IntFillDataCurrent(var Reader: PByte;
  IgnoreColumnDataSize: boolean);
var F,Len: Integer;
    ft: TSQLDBFieldType;
begin // format match TSQLDBStatement.FetchAllToBinary()
  if fDataCurrentRowNullLen>0 then
    FillCharFast(fDataCurrentRowNull[0],fDataCurrentRowNullLen,0);
  fDataCurrentRowNullLen := FromVarUInt32(Reader);
  if fDataCurrentRowNullLen>fDataRowNullSize then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Invalid %.IntFillDataCurrent %>%',
      [self,fDataCurrentRowNullLen,fDataRowNullSize]);
  if fDataCurrentRowNullLen>0 then begin
    MoveFast(Reader^,fDataCurrentRowNull[0],fDataCurrentRowNullLen);
    inc(Reader,fDataCurrentRowNullLen);
  end;
  fDataCurrentRowValuesStart := Reader;
  for F := 0 to fColumnCount-1 do
    if GetBitPtr(pointer(fDataCurrentRowNull),F) then
      fDataCurrentRowValues[F] := nil else begin
      ft := fColumns[F].ColumnType;
      if ft<ftInt64 then begin // per-row column type (SQLite3 only)
        ft := TSQLDBFieldType(Reader^);
        inc(Reader);
      end;
      fDataCurrentRowColTypes[F] := ft;
      fDataCurrentRowValues[F] := Reader;
      case ft of
      ftInt64:
        Reader := GotoNextVarInt(Reader);
      ftDouble, ftCurrency, ftDate:
        inc(Reader,SizeOf(Int64));
      ftUTF8, ftBlob: begin
        Len := FromVarUInt32(Reader);
        if not IgnoreColumnDataSize then
          if Len>fColumns[F].ColumnDataSize then
            fColumns[F].ColumnDataSize := Len;
        inc(Reader,Len); // jump string/blob content
      end;
      else raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.IntStep: Invalid ColumnType(%)=%',
        [self,fColumns[F].ColumnName,ord(ft)]);
      end;
    end;
  fDataCurrentRowValuesSize := PtrUInt(Reader)-PtrUInt(fDataCurrentRowValuesStart);
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract.ColumnsToJSON(WR: TJSONWriter);
var col, DataLen: integer;
    Data: PByte;
begin
  if WR.Expand then
    WR.Add('{');
  for col := 0 to fColumnCount-1 do begin
    if WR.Expand then
      WR.AddFieldName(fColumns[col].ColumnName); // add '"ColumnName":'
    Data := fDataCurrentRowValues[col];
    if Data=nil then
      WR.AddShort('null') else
    case fDataCurrentRowColTypes[col] of
      ftInt64:
        WR.Add(FromVarInt64Value(Data));
      ftDouble:
        WR.AddDouble(unaligned(PDouble(Data)^));
      ftCurrency:
        WR.AddCurr64(PInt64(Data)^);
      ftDate: begin
        WR.Add('"');
        WR.AddDateTime(PDateTime(Data)^);
        WR.Add('"');
      end;
      ftUTF8: begin
        WR.Add('"');
        DataLen := FromVarUInt32(Data);
        WR.AddJSONEscape(Data,DataLen);
        WR.Add('"');
      end;
      ftBlob:
      if fForceBlobAsNull then
        WR.AddShort('null') else begin
        DataLen := FromVarUInt32(Data);
        WR.WrBase64(PAnsiChar(Data),DataLen,{withMagic=}true);
      end;
    end;
    WR.Add(',');
  end;
  WR.CancelLastComma; // cancel last ','
  if WR.Expand then
    WR.Add('}');
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract.ColumnsToBinary(W: TFileBufferWriter;
  Null: pointer; const ColTypes: TSQLDBFieldTypeDynArray);
begin
  W.Write(fDataCurrentRowValuesStart,fDataCurrentRowValuesSize);
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract.ColumnData(Col: integer): pointer;
begin
  if (fDataCurrentRowValues<>nil) and (cardinal(Col)<cardinal(fColumnCount)) then
    result := fDataCurrentRowValues[col] else
    result := nil;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract.ColumnType(Col: integer; FieldSize: PInteger): TSQLDBFieldType;
begin
  if (fDataRowCount>0) and (cardinal(Col)<cardinal(fColumnCount)) then
    if GetBitPtr(pointer(fDataCurrentRowNull),Col) then
      result := ftNull else
      with fColumns[Col] do begin
        if FieldSize<>nil then
          FieldSize^ := ColumnDataSize; // true max size as computed at loading
        result := fDataCurrentRowColTypes[Col]; // per-row column type (SQLite3)
      end else
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Invalid %.ColumnType()',[self]);
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract.IntColumnType(Col: integer; out Data: PByte): TSQLDBFieldType;
begin
  if (cardinal(Col)>=cardinal(fColumnCount)) or (fDataCurrentRowValues=nil) then
    result := ftUnknown else begin
    Data := fDataCurrentRowValues[Col];
    if Data=nil then
      result := ftNull else
      result := fDataCurrentRowColTypes[Col]; // per-row column type (SQLite3)
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract.ColumnCurrency(Col: integer): currency;
var Data: PByte;
begin
  case IntColumnType(Col,Data) of
  ftNull: result := 0;
  ftInt64: result := FromVarInt64Value(Data);
  ftDouble, ftDate: result := unaligned(PDouble(Data)^);
  ftCurrency: result := PCurrency(Data)^;
  else raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.ColumnCurrency()',[self]);
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract.ColumnDateTime(Col: integer): TDateTime;
var Data: PByte;
begin
  case IntColumnType(Col,Data) of
  ftNull: result := 0;
  ftInt64: result := FromVarInt64Value(Data);
  ftDouble, ftDate: result := unaligned(PDouble(Data)^);
  ftUTF8: with FromVarBlob(Data) do
            result := Iso8601ToDateTimePUTF8Char(PUTF8Char(Ptr),Len);
  else raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.ColumnDateTime()',[self]);
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract.ColumnDouble(Col: integer): double;
var Data: PByte;
begin
  case IntColumnType(Col,Data) of
  ftNull: result := 0;
  ftInt64: result := FromVarInt64Value(Data);
  ftDouble, ftDate: result := unaligned(PDouble(Data)^);
  ftCurrency: result := PCurrency(Data)^;
  else raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.ColumnDouble()',[self]);
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract.ColumnInt(Col: integer): Int64;
var Data: PByte;
begin
  case IntColumnType(Col,Data) of
  ftNull: result := 0;
  ftInt64: result := FromVarInt64Value(Data);
  ftDouble, ftDate: result := Trunc(unaligned(PDouble(Data)^));
  ftCurrency: result := PInt64(Data)^ div 10000;
  else raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.ColumnInt()',[self]);
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract.ColumnNull(Col: integer): boolean;
begin
  result := (cardinal(Col)>=cardinal(fColumnCount)) or
            GetBitPtr(pointer(fDataCurrentRowNull),Col);
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract.ColumnBlob(Col: integer): RawByteString;
var Data: PByte;
begin
  case IntColumnType(Col,Data) of
  ftNull: result := '';
  ftDouble, ftCurrency, ftDate: SetString(result,PAnsiChar(Data),sizeof(Int64));
  ftBlob, ftUTF8: with FromVarBlob(Data) do SetString(result,Ptr,Len);
  else raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.ColumnBlob()',[self]);
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract.ColumnUTF8(Col: integer): RawUTF8;
var Data: PByte;
begin
  case IntColumnType(Col,Data) of
  ftNull: result := '';
  ftInt64: result := Int64ToUtf8(FromVarInt64Value(Data));
  ftDouble: result := DoubleToStr(unaligned(PDouble(Data)^));
  ftCurrency: result := Curr64ToStr(PInt64(Data)^);
  ftDate: DateTimeToIso8601TextVar(PDateTime(Data)^,'T',result);
  ftBlob, ftUTF8: with FromVarBlob(Data) do FastSetString(result,Ptr,Len);
  else raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.ColumnUTF8()',[self]);
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatementAbstract.ColumnString(Col: integer): string;
var Data: PByte;
begin
  case IntColumnType(Col,Data) of
  ftNull: result := '';
  ftInt64: result := IntToString(FromVarInt64Value(Data));
  ftDouble: result := DoubleToString(unaligned(PDouble(Data)^));
  ftCurrency: result := Curr64ToString(PInt64(Data)^);
  ftDate: DateTimeToIso8601StringVar(PDateTime(Data)^,'T',result);
  ftUTF8: with FromVarBlob(Data) do UTF8DecodeToString(PUTF8Char(Ptr),Len,result);
  ftBlob: with FromVarBlob(Data) do SetString(result,Ptr,Len shr 1);
  else raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('%.ColumnString()',[self]);
  end;
end;


{ TSQLDBProxyStatement }

procedure TSQLDBProxyStatement.ParamsToCommand(var Input: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommandExecute);
begin
  if (fColumnCount>0) or (fDataInternalCopy<>'') then
    raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Invalid %.ExecutePrepared* call',[self]);
  Input.SQL := fSQL;
  if length(fParams)<>fParamCount then // strip to only needed memory
    SetLength(fParams,fParamCount);
  Input.Params := fParams;
  Input.ArrayCount := fParamsArrayCount;
  if fForceBlobAsNull then
    Input.Force := [fBlobAsNull] else
    Input.Force := [];
  if fForceDateWithMS then
    include(Input.Force,fDateWithMS);
  if fForceNoUpdateCount then
    include(Input.Force,fNoUpdateCount);
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyStatement.ExecutePrepared;
var Input: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommandExecute;
const CMD: array[boolean] of TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommand = (
  cExecute, cExecuteToBinary);
begin
  inherited ExecutePrepared; // set fConnection.fLastAccessTicks
  // execute the statement
  ParamsToCommand(Input);
  TSQLDBProxyConnectionPropertiesAbstract(fConnection.fProperties).Process(
    CMD[fExpectResults],Input,fDataInternalCopy);
  if fExpectResults then
    // retrieve columns information from TSQLDBStatement.FetchAllToBinary() format
    IntHeaderProcess(pointer(fDataInternalCopy),Length(fDataInternalCopy)) else
    // retrieve UpdateCount value for plain cExecute command
    fUpdateCount := GetInteger(pointer(fDataInternalCopy));
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatement.UpdateCount: integer;
begin
  result := fUpdateCount;
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyStatement.ExecutePreparedAndFetchAllAsJSON(Expanded: boolean;
  out JSON: RawUTF8);
var Input: TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommandExecute;
const CMD: array[boolean] of TSQLDBProxyConnectionCommand = (
  cExecuteToJSON, cExecuteToExpandedJSON);
begin
  ParamsToCommand(Input);
  TSQLDBProxyConnectionPropertiesAbstract(fConnection.fProperties).Process(
    CMD[Expanded],Input,JSON);
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatement.FetchAllToBinary(Dest: TStream; MaxRowCount: cardinal;
  DataRowPosition: PCardinalDynArray): cardinal;
begin
  if (MaxRowCount>0) and (MaxRowCount<cardinal(fDataRowCount)) then begin
    result := inherited FetchAllToBinary(Dest,MaxRowCount,DataRowPosition);
    exit;
  end;
  Dest.WriteBuffer(pointer(fDataInternalCopy)^,Length(fDataInternalCopy));
  if DataRowPosition<>nil then
    // TSQLDBProxyStatementRandomAccess.Create() will recompute it fast enough
    DataRowPosition^ := nil;
  result := fDataRowCount;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatement.Step(SeekFirst: boolean): boolean;
begin // retrieve one row of data from TSQLDBStatement.FetchAllToBinary() format
  if SeekFirst then
    fCurrentRow := 0;
  if (cardinal(fCurrentRow)>=cardinal(fDataRowCount)) then begin
    result := false; // no data was retrieved
    exit;
  end;
  if fCurrentRow=0 then begin
    fDataRowReader := fDataRowReaderOrigin;     // rewind TFileBufferReader
    fDataCurrentRowNullLen := fDataRowNullSize; // reset null
  end;
  IntFillDataCurrent(fDataRowReader,false);
  inc(fCurrentRow);
  result := true;
end;


{ TSQLDBProxyStatementRandomAccess }

constructor TSQLDBProxyStatementRandomAccess.Create(Data: PByte; DataLen: integer;
  DataRowPosition: PCardinalDynArray; IgnoreColumnDataSize: boolean);
var i,f: integer;
    Reader: PByte;
begin
  inherited Create(nil);
  IntHeaderProcess(Data,DataLen);
  Reader := fDataRowReaderOrigin;
  if (DataRowPosition<>nil) and (DataRowPosition^<>nil) then begin
    fRowData := DataRowPosition^; // fast copy-on-write
    if not IgnoreColumnDataSize then
    for f := 0 to fColumnCount-1 do
      with fColumns[f] do
      if ColumnType in [ftUTF8,ftBlob] then
        if ColumnValueDBSize=0 then begin // unknown size -> compute
          for i := 0 to DataRowCount-1 do
            IntFillDataCurrent(Reader,false); // will compute ColumnDataSize
          break;
        end else
          ColumnDataSize := ColumnValueDBSize; // use declared maximum size
  end else begin
    SetLength(fRowData,DataRowCount);
    for i := 0 to DataRowCount-1 do begin
      fRowData[i] := PtrUInt(Reader)-PtrUInt(fDataRowReaderOrigin);
      IntFillDataCurrent(Reader,IgnoreColumnDataSize); // will also compute ColumnDataSize
    end;
  end;
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatementRandomAccess.GotoRow(Index: integer;
  RaiseExceptionOnWrongIndex: Boolean): boolean;
var Reader: PByte;
begin
  result := (cardinal(Index)<cardinal(fDataRowCount)) and (fColumnCount>0);
  if not result then
    if RaiseExceptionOnWrongIndex then
      raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Invalid %.GotoRow(%)',[self,Index]) else
      exit;
  if fDataCurrentRowIndex<>Index then begin // compute only if changed :)
    Reader := @PAnsiChar(fDataRowReaderOrigin)[fRowData[Index]];
    IntFillDataCurrent(Reader,false);
    fDataCurrentRowIndex := Index;
  end;
end;

procedure TSQLDBProxyStatementRandomAccess.ExecutePrepared;
begin
  raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Unexpected %.ExecutePrepared',[self]);
end;

function TSQLDBProxyStatementRandomAccess.Step(SeekFirst: boolean=false): boolean;
begin
  raise ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8('Unexpected %.Step',[self]);
end;

{$endif WITH_PROXY}


{ ESQLDBException }

constructor ESQLDBException.CreateUTF8(const Format: RawUTF8; const Args: array of const);
var msg {$ifndef SYNDB_SILENCE}, sql{$endif}: RawUTF8;
begin
  msg := FormatUTF8(Format,Args);
  {$ifndef SYNDB_SILENCE}
  if (length(Args)>0) and (Args[0].VType=vtObject) and (Args[0].VObject<>nil) then
    if Args[0].VObject.InheritsFrom(TSQLDBStatement) then begin
      fStatement := TSQLDBStatement(Args[0].VObject);
      if fStatement.Connection.Properties.LogSQLStatementOnException then begin
        try
          sql := fStatement.GetSQLWithInlinedParams;
        except
          sql := fStatement.SQL; // if parameter access failed -> append with ?
        end;
        msg := msg+' - '+sql;
      end;
    end;
  {$endif}
  inherited Create(UTF8ToString(msg));
end;


const
  __TSQLDBColumnDefine = 'ColumnName,ColumnTypeNative RawUTF8 '+
    'ColumnLength,ColumnPrecision,ColumnScale PtrInt '+
    'ColumnType TSQLDBFieldType ColumnIndexed boolean';

initialization
  assert(SizeOf(TSQLDBColumnProperty)=sizeof(PTrUInt)*2+20);
  TTextWriter.RegisterCustomJSONSerializerFromTextSimpleType(TypeInfo(TSQLDBFieldType));
  TTextWriter.RegisterCustomJSONSerializerFromText(
    TypeInfo(TSQLDBColumnDefine),__TSQLDBColumnDefine);
end.