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Re: Unknown marker errors selecting bit field (was How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars)

From: "Curt Hagenlocher" <curt AT hagenlocher.org>
To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Unknown marker errors selecting bit field (was How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars)
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 08:24:46 -0700

> 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.

A bit field that allows nulls is type SYBBITN (0x68). One that
does not is type SYBBIT (0x32). It sounds like SYBBITN is not
being handled correctly.

Because SYBBITN is not part of the 4.2 protocol, your problem
also went away when you set the protocol to 4.2.

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Curt Hagenlocher
curt AT hagenlocher.org

Unknown marker errors selecting bit field (was How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars), Darryl Friesen, 06/05/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Unknown marker errors selecting bit field (was How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars), Curt Hagenlocher, 06/05/2001
- Re: Unknown marker errors selecting bit field (was How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars), Brian Bruns, 06/05/2001
- Re: Unknown marker errors selecting bit field (was How to read Strings bigger than 255 chars), Brian Bruns, 06/09/2001