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["Brug, Herco van -Syntegra NL" <H.vanBrug AT syntegra.nl>]

i'm not sure how to look up the table definition (as i am not the su of the
database server). in ms-access it tells me the fields i'm looking for are of
type 'memo'. 
i tried the convert(text,db.table.field) but that returns nothing. according
to my sql book this would convert a variable named 'text' to the 'field'
charactertype. i dont think my book is right because if i try to convert it
to something else but 'text', the server tells me that's not a correct
datatype. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Bruns [mailto:camber AT ais.org]
Sent: vrijdag 3 november 2000 15:21
To: TDS Development Group
Subject: [freetds] Re: 255 char limit in result queries




On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Brug, Herco van -Syntegra NL wrote:

> ok after some trial and error i set it with mssql_query("set textsize
> 10000\nSelect * from something");
> this still limited the result to 255 chars. setting it to 10 (!) did limit
> it to 10 chars so the thing works but only to make it smaller, not bigger
> than 255 chars....... 
> the field i'm querying btw is a 'memo' field with undefined length, not a
> normal textfield (which may be limited to 255 chars by definition?). could
> this have something to do with it?
>

That could have a lot to do with it.  Please post the table definition
(ddl) and I'll see what I can do.  Unfortunately I don't have access to a
6.5 version of SQL Server, so I'll have to try it out under 7.0.  BTW you
might try 'select convert(text, mymemofield) from mytable' and see if
that's any different.

Brian
 


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