FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Carl Johnson [mailto:CJohnson AT Acadian-Asset.com]
> Sent: March 3, 2003 12:23 PM
> 
> If you use freebcp to copy data out of a datetime or 
> smalldatetime field
> with a null value, the output file contains "1900-01-01 00:00:00.000"
> instead of nothing for this field.

Thank you for noticing this.  

> it looks like the problem is in dblib/bcp.c:683
...
> Shouldn't there be a check to see if bcpcol->data_size == 0 before the
> datecrack?

Yes that's the problem.  I committed a fix to the main branch.  You may wish
to apply the attached patch.  

> This is my first post to the group....

Welcome to the project, Carl.  

--jkl


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