FreeTDS Development Group

["Darryl Friesen" <Darryl.Friesen AT usask.ca>]

>> Ok, that is a known bug in 0.51.  It's fixed in CVS.
>
> I grabbed the freetds.snapshot.tgz from the web site and installed it.
Now
> when I execute the query, my Apache error_log is full of stuff like:
>
> Unknown marker: 116!!
> Unknown marker: 97!!
> Unknown marker: 108!!
> Unknown marker: 32!!
> Unknown marker: 72!!
> Unknown marker: 101!!
> Unknown marker: 97!!
> Unknown marker: 108!!
> Unknown marker: 116!!

I've got a bit more info about my problem.  My client is Digital Unix 4.0F
with the latest freetds.snapshot.tgz (May 30 I think) using the TDS 7.0
protocol.  Server is a Windows NT 4.0 box with MS SQL Server 7.0.

When I select a field of type bit which allows NULLs, I get the above
Unknown marker errors.  Selecting bit fields which do _not_ allow NULLs does
not cause this error.

Brian, when you say "fixed in CVS" do you mean after that last snapshot was
taken?  Should I really be grabbing source from the CVS repository?

My fix was to change the table design so that the field does not allow
NULLs; everything worked great after that.


- Darryl

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  Darryl Friesen, B.Sc., Programmer/Analyst    Darryl.Friesen AT usask.ca
  Education & Research Technology Services,     http://gollum.usask.ca/
  Department of Computing Services,
  University of Saskatchewan
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