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  • From: Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: DBD::Sybase or FreeTDS ...money type/TIMESTAMP seems broken...
  • Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 20:40:28 -0400 (EDT)




On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Mark Schaal wrote:

> > Hmm...I don't have timestamps to compare but varbinary seems to work fine:
> >
> [..deleted..]
> >
> > I'll look further, but it does seem strange that sqsh and DBD::Sybase
> > would return different values.
> >
> > Brian
>
> I've found two problems which may/may not be related.
> (1) SYBBINARY doesn't work. That's a simple matter of adding a
> case to tds_convert() to send binary to the varbinary function.
Shouldn't affect timestamps, fixed it anyway though.

> (2) SYBVARBINARY isn't getting sent the correct column sizes. I
> define a column as varbinary(4).
> Input: 0x4444 0x88888888
> Output: 0x44440000 0x88888888
> So the convert function is getting the column size and not the
> actual data size.
Brown paper bag time for letting that one through! :(

Actually, varbinary has to be redone from the tds layer on up for this.
Ack!

>
> Since you're looking at it and I don't need binary support here, I'll
> move on to something else.
>
> Mark
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