FreeTDS Development Group

["blackwater dev" <blackwaterdev AT gmail.com>]

Hey James,

Thanks for all your info and patience with me.  I compiled it into php and
wrote a little php script that works fine.

Thanks,
Eddie

On 3/17/06, James K. Lowden <jklowden AT freetds.org> wrote:
>
> blackwater dev wrote:
> > If I use bcp for everything else, is there another way via freetds to
> > somehow move the blob data from the sql server to a local MySQL db
> > without using bcp?
> >
> > I just installed sqsh and am not trying to go through the docs on it but
> > it would be really nice just to be able to use freetds.
>
> I spent the evening looking at the code, and I'm sorry to say you may be
> SOL.  sqsh *might* work, if it tackles the problem more intelligently.
>
> The problem is that freebcp treats all data alike: it allocates a buffer
> for the column, reads the data into the buffer, converts it if necessary,
> and writes it out.  Even if nothing's converted (as in the case of IMAGE
> data), a copy is made to bring the data out of libtds's memory.
>
> The copying isn't technically necessary, but neither is it a problem (for
> normal-size data), and eliminating it would take quite a bit of work.
>
> If sqsh doesn't work, the shortest route, for someone who knows how, would
> be to use Perl or adapt one of the db-lib unit tests:
>
> $ grep -l readtext src/dblib/unittests/*.c
> src/dblib/unittests/t0013.c
> src/dblib/unittests/t0014.c
>
> These programs use the readtext() function, which is what one needs (and
> what freebcp doesn't use) when reading blob data.
>
> That's the best we've got at this stage of the project, I'm afraid.
>
> Regards,
>
> --jkl
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