FreeTDS Development Group

[Johnny Ljunggren <johnny AT navtek.no>]

On Mon, 12 May 2003 12:33:59 -0400
"Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com> wrote:

> > I have this system:
> > MS SQL 2000 sp2, freetds-0.62.dev.20030508, unixODBC-2.2.5
> > 
<snip DB-setup>
> > 
> > If I run the isql-program that comes with unixODBC, I connect 
> > OK and try this statement:
> > select * from text;
> > That should return 'Excellent test' but return this:
> > +---------------------+
> > | text                |
> > +---------------------+
> > |                     |
> > +---------------------+
> > 1 rows affected
> > 1 rows returned
> > 
> > If I enter the same statement again I get this:
> > [unixODBC]Changed database context to 'JCTest'.
> > [unixODBC]Changed language setting to us_english.
> > [unixODBC]Option not supported
> > [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLExecute
> > 
>
> Welcome to the project and thanks for helping us straighten out charset
> handling.  

Thanks. Hopefully you can help me as well :)
 
> > If I change data type to 'char' or length to i.e. 50 then suddenly
> > everything works as it should.
> 
> Do you mean that nvarchar(20) fails but nvarchar(50) works?  Computers!
> What will they think of next?  Does nvarchar(19) or nvarchar(21) work
> any better?  

For this test the critical value seems to be 40. ie 39 doesn't work, but
40 does. And this is repeatable.
 
> You might also try the same query in tsql.  If tsql works and isql does
> not, it could be because isql isn't initializing the locale information.

I'm unable to use this. It seems to log in, but does not return any data.
locale is "no_NO"
charset is "ISO-8859-1"
Password:
Msg 5703, Level 0, State 1, Server PIMS, Line 0
Changed language setting to us_english.
1> select * from text;
2> select * from tt;
3>

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