How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars

Brian Bruns camber at ais.org
Mon Jun 4 18:27:00 EDT 2001



There have been a number of changes in TDS 7.0 support since 0.51.  It
wouldn't hurt to grab a recent snapshot.  You can find a link to the CVS
snapshots under the download section of the webpage.

Brian


On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Darryl Friesen wrote:

> >> 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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