[freetds] TEXT/NTEXT header format question
David Eastman
deastman at email.com
Tue Feb 3 16:37:40 EST 2004
Ive got a question Im hoping someone here can help me with
Im
trying to parse TDS packets, and Im having problems with TEXT/NTEXT
columns. From the TDS source Ive determined that bytes 25-28 of the
column header are the length of the data, starting at byte 29.
However, in certain queries, Im finding that this length is off by a
few bytes, which of course not only corrupts my column data, but
means that Im not picking up the next column correctly. I dont see
anything in the TDS source to deal with this, and Ive confirmed from
some network captures that it is simply a case of the length bytes
mentioned above not matching the actual text length, so obviously
there must be some kind of offset or other information Im missing.
Does anyone have a clue? Is there a more up-to-date version of the
protocol document that describes the column header for text columns?
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