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[v79k <v79k AT yahoo.com>]

--- "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>
wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2004, v79k <v79k AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Is there a limit of 256 bytes for FreeTDS? Column
> 1 is
> > basically tab limited data.
> 
> No.  FreeTDS imposes no limit.  The server or TDS
> version might, though. 
> varchar in < TDS 7.0 is limited to 255 characters.

-- I use FreeTDS 8.0 since MS SQL Server 2000. The
server has no limit. Actually, there is a limit but it
is very high.
> 
> > Will breaking into individual columns help?
> 
> Eh, well, many people would call that better design.
>  Of itself, better
> design often helps.  
-- I tend to agree. The SP was just written that way.
Its working now. Instead of returning varchar, we are
returning text which in the server has a limit that
will not be reached very often.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts,
-vk

> 
> --jkl
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