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Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars

From: "Darryl Friesen" <Darryl.Friesen AT usask.ca>
To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:52:46 -0600

>> Eric, if you issue the query "set textsize 10000" prior to selecting
>> the text column does that also fix the problem?
>
> Yes it does! If I just do:

Hmm. Doesn't work for me here. I still get a

Out of memory during "large" request for -2147479552 bytes

in my Perl script (which uses DBD::Sybase)

This is using the "released" 0.51 distribution however; I haven't gotten
into the whole CVS thing yet. Maybe it's time I figured out how that all
works. :)

- Darryl

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Education & Research Technology Services, http://gollum.usask.ca/
Department of Computing Services,
University of Saskatchewan
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Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars , (continued)
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Pier Paolo Bortone, 06/01/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Brian Bruns, 06/01/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Paul Schaap, 06/03/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, James K. Lowden, 06/03/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Brian Bruns, 06/03/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Paul Schaap, 06/03/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Brian Bruns, 06/04/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Eric Deutsch, 06/04/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Brian Bruns, 06/04/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Eric Deutsch, 06/04/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Darryl Friesen, 06/04/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Michael Peppler, 06/04/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Darryl Friesen, 06/04/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Brian Bruns, 06/04/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Brian Bruns, 06/04/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Darryl Friesen, 06/04/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Michael Peppler, 06/04/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Peter Deacon, 06/04/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Brian Bruns, 06/04/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Darryl Friesen, 06/04/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Michael Peppler, 06/04/2001