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  • From: Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Problem w/ DBD::Sybase 0.22 -- FIXED
  • Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:59:57 -0400 (EDT)


Hi,

The enhancements in 7.0 are basically unicode support and support of long
varchars (varchars of greater than 255 length). I'll try to look at this
when I get back to my SQL Server box.

Brian

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 shea AT llamacom.com wrote:

> re:
>
> >>I'm using DBD::Sybase 0.22, along w/ the freetds drivers, to connect to an
> >>MS SQL Server 7.0 database from a Linux machine. Everything is working
> >>*great* except for the following. Executing the query shown below:
>
> >>INSERT pending (username, firstname, lastname, company, [plan], billing,
> >>billtype, address1, address2, city, state, zipcode, country, phone, email,
> >>billtocompany, [server], domain, domaintype, ccnum, exp, name_on_card,
> >>card_zip, [notes]) VALUES ('Test', 'First', 'Last', '', '1', '1', '1',
> >>'Address', '', 'Ames', 'IA', '50014', '', '555', 'shea AT llamacom.com', '0',
> >>'www3', '', 'new', '', '', '','', 'this is a very long test note to the
> >>reader of this message with nothing important');
>
> >>results in the message: Unknown marker: 0!!
>
> >>on STDERR, and the program entering what appears to be an infinite loop,
> >>without executing the query. If the string inserted as a value for the
> >>otes field is <= 81 characters, or if said string is null, the query
> >>executes fine. Any idea what could be causing this ?
>
> I just managed to determine at least a work around for the solution, from
> looking at similar problems posted to the list -- the problem appears to go
> away if I set TDSVER to '42' --- everything appears to work fine now. Can
> anyone out there point me towards somewhere that I can find out what, if any
> functionality I lose by using 4.2 instead of 7.0 ?
>
> -Shea Nangle
> <shea AT llamacom.com>
>
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