FreeTDS Development Group

["Thompson, Bill D (London)" <ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com>]

Stephen, 

On point 3., BCP stands for bulk copy. It is a special mechanism for bulk
loading or unloading of data into/out of the database.
So don't worry too much - If you don't know what it stands for, you're
probably not using it :-)

On Point 4. Normal operations with text/image/binary columns should function
fine, at least as far as FreeTDS is concerned. I can't speak for Perl, but I
can't recall anything to suggest that there are problems in this area.

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen More [SMTP:mores AT yahoo.com]
> Sent: 11 December 2002 15:35
> To:   freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject:      [freetds] Update to webpage, Perl, and binary
> 
> 1. Can someone update http://www.freetds.org/docs.html so that help and
> troubleshooting point to
> the right location ?
> 
> 2. The latest version of DBD::Sybase that will work with freetds is 0.94,
> 0.95 wont't work.
> 
> 3. Known Issue "BCP of text and image types is currently broken for
> Microsoft servers."
>    What does BCP standfor ? I assume this means that binary columns will
> not works against
> Microsoft servers.
>    
> 4. How can I get perl to select, update, and insert binary columns in
> Microsoft servers ?
> 
> 
> -Thanks
> Stephen More
> 
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