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  • From: "Brian Bruns" <camber AT ais.org>
  • To: 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 12:25:49 -0400


> >> Ok, that is a known bug in 0.51. It's fixed in CVS.

>
> 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.


Ok, I know I fixed this problem! I'll have to look tonight and see if
maybe it didn't make it into CVS or other strangeness.

Brian




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