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

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

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