[freetds] SQLDescribeColumn and tds_next_placeholders_ucs2le

ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT Frediano.Ziglio at vodafone.com
Mon Mar 22 02:45:29 EST 2004


> > I think it's SQLDescribeCol. SQLDescribeCol do not return the char
> > representation, it return type length, so 16 it right. You 
> should use
> > SQLColAttribute(SQL_DESC_DISPLAY_SIZE) to get display size.
> >
> 
> Thanks for a tip with SQLColAttribute. Really the reason I wrote about
> SQLDescribeCol is that if I run my program under DOS with MS 
> version of
> ODBC SQLDescribeCol it returns column size 36. It is just a little
> confusing about which function is right to use.
> 

I don't think MS update ODBC for DOS that much :)
This is the reason. ODBC use TDS protocol version 4.2 so server cannot
send GUID data and send just GUID converted to varchar... So you see the
print size..

> > Fixed in CVS. A problem with " termination.
> 
> Thanks a lot!!! It works fine now :)
> 

James should release 0.62.2 to fix this and some other issues.

freddy77



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