FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

By the way this can also be set in the freetds.conf file using the 'text 
size' directive.  Example:

[myserver]
host = 
tds version = 7.0
text size = 4906

This way programs need not be modified, and it can be done on a per server 
basis.

Brian

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, James K. Lowden wrote:

> Stefan Carstens wrote:
> > 
> > READ THE FAQ, YOUR ANSWER IS ALREADY THERE !
> 
> Ouch!  That wasn't very nice.  
>  
> > From: "Kaeptn Weltall" <rl AT w4u.com>
> > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 3:22 PM
> > 
> > > 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.
> 
> Kaeptn, 
> 
> I think Sefan is pointing you to 
> 
>       http://www.freetds.org/faq.html#textdata
> 
> Does the problem go away if you set @@textsize?  PHP & Co. might be
> choking on the MS lie about a 2 GB field.  
> 
> --jkl
> 
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