FreeTDS Development Group

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

> 
> freetds 0.63-1.1 on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.
> 
> Python 2.3 using mx.ODBC v 2.0.7
> 
> I am using a python script to connect to MSSQL Server 2003, 
> and am having 
> trouble inserting any strings with escaped characters ('\n','\t',etc.)
> 

mssql 2003 ??? It doesn't exist.... ms released mssql 2000 and mssql
2005...

> Any strings with carriage returns or newlines error with:
> 
> Error Type: InterfaceError
> Error Value: ('HY004', 0, '[unixODBC][FreeTDS][SQL 
> Server]Invalid data type', 5665)
> 
> the important part of the logfile:
> 
> Received packet @ 08:13:57.747411
> 0000 aa 82 00 ce 00 00 00 02-10 34 00 4f 00 70 00 65 
> |........ .4.O.p.e|
> 0010 00 72 00 61 00 6e 00 64-00 20 00 74 00 79 00 70 
> |.r.a.n.d . .t.y.p|
> 0020 00 65 00 20 00 63 00 6c-00 61 00 73 00 68 00 3a |.e. 
> .c.l .a.s.h.:|
> 0030 00 20 00 69 00 6d 00 61-00 67 00 65 00 20 00 69 |. 
> .i.m.a .g.e. .i|
> 0040 00 73 00 20 00 69 00 6e-00 63 00 6f 00 6d 00 70 |.s. 
> .i.n .c.o.m.p|
> 0050 00 61 00 74 00 69 00 62-00 6c 00 65 00 20 00 77 
> |.a.t.i.b .l.e. .w|
> 0060 00 69 00 74 00 68 00 20-00 6e 00 74 00 65 00 78 |.i.t.h. 
>  .n.t.e.x|
> 0070 00 74 00 07 4e 00 41 00-4e 00 53 00 51 00 4c 00 
> |.t..N.A. N.S.Q.L.|
> 0080 33 00 00 01 00 aa 60 00-f4 1f 00 00 01 10 23 00 
> |3.....`. ......#.|
> 0090 53 00 74 00 61 00 74 00-65 00 6d 00 65 00 6e 00 
> |S.t.a.t. e.m.e.n.|
> 00a0 74 00 28 00 73 00 29 00-20 00 63 00 6f 00 75 00 
> |t.(.s.).  .c.o.u.|
> 00b0 6c 00 64 00 20 00 6e 00-6f 00 74 00 20 00 62 00 |l.d. 
> .n. o.t. .b.|
> 00c0 65 00 20 00 70 00 72 00-65 00 70 00 61 00 72 00 |e. 
> .p.r. e.p.a.r.|
> 00d0 65 00 64 00 2e 00 07 4e-00 41 00 4e 00 53 00 51 
> |e.d....N .A.N.S.Q|
> 00e0 00 4c 00 33 00 00 01 00-79 f4 1f 00 00 ac 09 00 
> |.L.3.... y.......|
> 00f0 00 01 38 00 00 00 26 04-00 fe 02 00 e0 00 01 00 
> |..8...&. ........|
> 0100 00 00                  -                        |..|
> 
> 

Could you post more log. The query would be very useful.

> What I am trying to insert is just HTML without embedded images.
> 
> Thnaks for any direction you can provide.

freddy77