FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Ou Liu [mailto:ou AT qbt.com]
> Sent: December 18, 2002 2:13 PM
>
>       1. For those guys who frustrated at making iODBC and 
> FreeTDS work together:
>       Please do download the "newest" FreeTDS, I mean version 
> higher than
> 1.102.Otherwise because the iODBC manager will suppose that 
> some of function
> have been implemented by the freetds' odbc driver which it doesn't.
>       And do use the patch of Patrick, otherwise you will 
> have to go to the connect.c and change it by yourself.

Clarification.  Ou is referring to the cvs revision number of
src/odbc/odbc.c, the value of that file's "software_version" variable.  The
file was updated a few hours ago.  

Today's changes, including Patrick's patch, will appear in tonight's
snapshot, approximately 4:00 AM EST.  

>       4. For Freddy and other guys
>       Even after I have a connection to the MSSQL 2K database 
> on a Windows 2K
> machine, still I have some problem when fetching data, I do 
> can fetch some
> data, but seems as if I met a problem when I am fetching a big string.
>       If anybody met the same problem as me, could you please 
> post your problem onto the mailing list.

Ou, what do mean by "big string"?  

varchar data are limited to 8000 bytes.

text data are limited by "textsize".  Cf.
http://www.freetds.org/faq.html#textdata and the User Guide.  

--jkl


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