Preparing a SELECT ... INTO Query

In ESQL/C, you cannot prepare a query that has an INTO clause. You can prepare the query without the INTO clause, declare a cursor for the prepared query, open the cursor, and then use the FETCH statement with an INTO clause to fetch the cursor into the program variable.

Alternatively, you can declare a cursor for the query without first preparing the query and include the INTO clause in the query when you declare the cursor. Then open the cursor and fetch the cursor without using the INTO clause of the FETCH statement.