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Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars

From: Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>
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 19:57:15 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Michael Peppler wrote:

> Brian Bruns writes:
> >
> > >From what I'm seeing, MS is, by default under TDS 7.0, actually sending
> > the entire text clob all in one go. So technically they are sticking to
> > the protocol. It just makes the maxlength value useless for preallocating
> > memory!
>
> What?!?!
>
> Don't they honour the default TEXTSIZE value?
>

they do honour it, it's just that they seem to have changed the default to
2 gig.

Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars , (continued)
- 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
- 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, James K. Lowden, 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, Michael Peppler, 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, James K. Lowden, 06/04/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Darryl Friesen, 06/05/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, James K. Lowden, 06/05/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, Darryl Friesen, 06/05/2001
- Re: How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars, James K. Lowden, 06/05/2001