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  • From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Requested: Clarification about TEXT type (0x23) on SqlServer
  • Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:30:54 -0400

crawford charles wrote:
> I have been looking at some traces of version 7.1
> SqlServer traffic, and I am confused about TEXT
> (0x23).
>
> Does this have a TXTPTR (as it does in SYBASE), and is
> it supposed to be UCS2 or ASCII?

It does have a txtptr. It's neither UCS-2 nor ASCII, precisely speaking.
It's single-byte encoded according to the codepage (or maybe they call it
"collation") for that column on the server.

HTH.

--jkl




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