FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>]

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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