FreeTDS Development Group

[shea AT llamacom.com]

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>