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[Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>]

David Ramsey writes:
 > Ok, now I am seeing some weird behavior. With the patch in place, I can
 > use SQSH 1.7 and access the SQL Server database and get proper date
 > outputs. But using the same libraries to link DBD::Sybase against and
 > running the same query, I am getting the dates in gibberish now. I am
 > quite certain this is a byte ordering issue but is there anywhere else
 > to look inside Free TDS or do I need to dig into the DBD::Sybase code?

DBD::Sybase just does a ct_bind() with a CS_CHAR_TYPE target, whereas
sqsh calls ct_bind() to the native datatype, and then calls
cs_convert() to display the data item.

This might point at some weirdness in either the implementation of
cs_convert() or ct_bind() in the FreeTDS libs.

Michael
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