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["ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>]

> 
> Hello,
> 
> My current business amounts to dumping MS SQLServer tables 
> that, among 
> others, contain TEXT (or NTEXT) data.
> 
> Of course, they are always longer than the current textsize ;-)
> 
> I was happy enough to find that the associated text-pointer 
> is returned 
> in the BLOBINFO data structure, for each blob column.
> I still need to know the length of that BLOB, so I can :
> 
>     SET TEXTSIZE @size_large_enough
> 
> and then :
> 
>     READTEXT Table.column @the_pointer 0 @size
> 
> My current guess is that I should augment the selected column with 
> DATALENGTH( blob_column1), DATALENGTH( blob_column2 ) ...
> which does not seems to be such a good idea, since automatically 
> patching SQL requests in such a way sounds hard to me. 
> Besides, I need 
> to know those column names in advance.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Alexis

I really don't understand. A simple "select * from table" isn't enough
??

freddy77