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** Copyright (C) 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
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** This file is part of the documentation of the Qt Toolkit.
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** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:FDL$
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/*!
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    \namespace QSql
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    \inmodule QtSql
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    \brief The QSql namespace contains miscellaneous identifiers used throughout
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    the Qt SQL library.
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    \inheaderfile QtSql
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    \ingroup database
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    \sa {QtSql Module}
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    \enum QSql::Confirm
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    \compat
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    This enum type describes edit confirmations.
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    \value Yes
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    \value No
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    \value Cancel
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    \enum QSql::Op
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    \compat
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    This enum type describes edit operations.
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    \value None
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    \value Insert
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    \value Update
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    \value Delete
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    \enum QSql::Location
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    This enum type describes special SQL navigation locations:
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    \value BeforeFirstRow Before the first record.
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    \value AfterLastRow After the last record.
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    \omitvalue BeforeFirst
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    \omitvalue AfterLast
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    \sa QSqlQuery::at()
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    \enum QSql::ParamTypeFlag
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    This enum is used to specify the type of a bind parameter.
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    \value In  The bind parameter is used to put data into the database.
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    \value Out  The bind parameter is used to receive data from the database.
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    \value InOut  The bind parameter is used to put data into the
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        a query.
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    \value Binary This must be OR'd with one of the other flags if
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    \enum QSql::TableType
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    This enum type describes types of SQL tables.
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    \value Tables  All the tables visible to the user.
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    \value SystemTables  Internal tables used by the database.
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    \value Views  All the views visible to the user.
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    \value AllTables  All of the above.
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    \enum QSql::NumericalPrecisionPolicy
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    This enum type describes at which precision levels numercial values are read from
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    a database.
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    Some databases support numerical values with a precision that is not storable in a
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    C++ basic data type. The default behavior is to bind these values as a QString.
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    This enum can be used to override this behavior.
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    \value LowPrecisionInt32  Force 32bit integer values. In case of floating point numbers,
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                              the fractional part is silently discarded.
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    \value LowPrecisionInt64  Force 64bit integer values. In case of floating point numbers,
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                              the fractional part is silently discarded.
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    \value LowPrecisionDouble Force \c double values.
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    \value HighPrecision      The default behavior - try to preserve maximum precision.
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    Note: The actual behaviour if an overflow occurs is driver specific. The Oracle database
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    just returns an error in this case.
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