FreeTDS Development Group

["Sales Department" <sales AT emerge.net.au>]

Just for anyone else who hasn't yet twigged; various versions of 
freetds/php will silently exit if a select returns a mildly funky data type 
(eg MONEY).

The workaround is to use the CONVERT() in your select statement to typecast 
the returned data type to something less oddball;

$result = sybase_query("select convert(float, money) from moneytab");

... wish I had the time to debug this properly... *big* thumbs up to 
everyone working on this project - it's helping me remove our last 
remaining microsoft dependancy :)