[freetds] DBD::Sybase MSSQL VARBINARY 255 byte limit
jklowden at schemamania.org
jklowden at schemamania.org
Sun Sep 3 18:38:39 EDT 2006
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:14:48PM -0500, Debbie wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using Perl DBD::Sybase on Linux, attempting to fetch VARBINARY
> columns from an MSSQL database. When I fetch columns that are longer
> than 255 bytes however, it gets truncated.
Sounds like you're using TDS 4.2. Make sure you're using TDS version 7.0
or 8.0 with your server. Cf. http://www.freetds.org/userguide/freetdsconf.htm#FREETDSCONFFORMAT.
HTH.
--jkl
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