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  • From: jklowden AT schemamania.org
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] DBD::Sybase MSSQL VARBINARY 255 byte limit
  • Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 18:38:39 -0400

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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