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["Stefan Carstens" <s.carstens AT coolspot.de>]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kaeptn Weltall" <rl AT w4u.com>
To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 3:22 PM
Subject: [freetds] mssql ntext format


> 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?
>
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