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i have the following problem when selecting a column of ntext
format from an mssql2k server:
the script simply stops executing.
eg

  select ntextcol from tab

with ntextcol of format ntext sends no answer while

  select cast(ntextcol as nvarchar(2048)) from tab

makes no trouble.
it makes no difference wether the "ntextcol"-field is empty or not.

webserver configuration:
- Linux porky.devel.redhat.com 2.4.5-7smp
  #1 SMP Tue Jun 26 14:19:49 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
- Apache/1.3.20
- PHP Version 4.0.6
- freetds 0.53 with setting "tds version = 7.0".
text, ntext and binary are known to cause trouble with
rowsetproviders as ".. for xml" related to their intrinsic
realization as pointers to the real data.any suggestions?