FreeTDS Development Group

["Ilya Storozhilov" <storozhilov AT mail.ru>]

Use 4.2 and typecasting to TEXT when you have VARCHAR field with more than
255 length to obtain a large memos. It works...

----- Original Message -----
From: Spyros Ioakim <sioakim AT ace-hellas.gr>
To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 11:23 AM
Subject: [freetds] freetds 7.0 or 4.2?


> I'm trying to get real unicode support and long chars for sql 7.0.
>
> I need to read a "memo" from an mssql 7.0.
>
> Installed with freetds=7.0 and got long chars (up to 8000) by reading the
> memo using "cast".
> No real unicode support though as the russion blokes have already
> mentioned.
>
> Recompiled freetds with freetds=4.2 and got the unicode support but can't
> read the memo now.
>
> Any ideas on how to get both of them?
> Is there a patch on freetds=7.0 to get the unicode suport?
>
> Thanks,
> Spyros
>
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