How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars

Darryl Friesen Darryl.Friesen at usask.ca
Mon Jun 4 17:52:46 EDT 2001


>> Eric, if you issue the query "set textsize 10000" prior to selecting
>> the text column does that also fix the problem?
>
> Yes it does!  If I just do:

Hmm.  Doesn't work for me here.  I still get a

    Out of memory during "large" request for -2147479552 bytes

in my Perl script (which uses DBD::Sybase)

This is using the "released" 0.51 distribution however; I haven't gotten
into the whole CVS thing yet.  Maybe it's time I figured out how that all
works.  :)


- Darryl

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