Display Image Fields From MSSQL.

Bob Kline bkline at rksystems.com
Mon Mar 5 10:42:43 EST 2001


On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Michael Peppler wrote:

> Bob Kline writes:
>  > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Brian Bruns wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Anyway, we should be doing whatever sybase/ms is doing with
>  > > image->char conversion, I just don't know what that is...I'll try it
>  > > out at work tommorow.
>  > 
>  > That conversion is not allowed by either Sybase and Microsoft.
> 
> IMAGE are returned as binary strings if bound to an CS_IMAGE_TYPE
> variable, or as a hex string if bound to a CS_TEXT_TYPE variable (in
> ct_bind()).

I see.  So that API is exposing more functionality then is available in
Transact-SQL, which isn't surprising.  I should have thought of that.
Thanks.

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Bob Kline
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