[freetds] BLOB retrieval
Alexis Nikichine
alexis.nikichine at free.fr
Tue May 3 10:38:05 EDT 2005
Hello,
My current business amounts to dumping MS SQLServer tables that, among
others, contain TEXT (or NTEXT) data.
Of course, they are always longer than the current textsize ;-)
I was happy enough to find that the associated text-pointer is returned
in the BLOBINFO data structure, for each blob column.
I still need to know the length of that BLOB, so I can :
SET TEXTSIZE @size_large_enough
and then :
READTEXT Table.column @the_pointer 0 @size
My current guess is that I should augment the selected column with
DATALENGTH( blob_column1), DATALENGTH( blob_column2 ) ...
which does not seems to be such a good idea, since automatically
patching SQL requests in such a way sounds hard to me. Besides, I need
to know those column names in advance.
Thanks for any help,
Alexis
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