FreeTDS Development Group

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

Our BCP implementation doesn't do TEXT columns.  Neither does it complain; it 
just hangs because the server doesn't respond.  

For your enjoyment, attached is tcpdump output of an upload to a table having 
a single column, of type TEXT.  The tools used were:

$ bcp -v
BCP - Bulk Copy Program for Microsoft SQL Server.
Copyright (c) 1991-1998, Microsoft Corp. All Rights Reserved.
Version: 7.00.623

$ isql -E -Smpquant -Q"select @@version"
        --------------------------------
 Microsoft SQL Server  2000 - 8.00.818 (Intel X86)
        May 31 2003 16:08:15
        Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation
        Enterprise Edition on Windows
         NT 5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack 3)

and

$ windump -w textbcp.tcpdump -xX -s1500 tcp and host mpquant and port 2500 
and host ntc0272

I thought perhaps we could at least decode what's going on.  That would make 
it easier to add the functionality.  

Thank you for your kind attention.  

--jkl


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