On Dec 29, 8:22am, christos at zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote: -- Subject: Re: [freetds] bcp is really busted | By encoding the NULL specially. Microsoft's bcp works fine. I will check | how it encodes it and report back. (Same for native format). It encodes the NULL by outputting a length of \xff\xff. We should be doing the same. christos