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[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

It seems that mssql 2005 returns a variant and our FreeTDS doesn't
like that much... while 0.82 replace with NULL or empty I tested CVS
HEAD and it hangs.

freddy77

2010/4/7 Rafael Kitover <rkitover AT cpan.org>:
> I just realized if I use:
>
> SELECT CAST(databasepropertyex(DB_NAME(), 'Collation') AS VARCHAR)
>
> then the query works on tds version 8.0 as well.
>
> That's all I needed.
>
>> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 12:36:30AM -0400, Rafael Kitover wrote:
>> > If I change it to:
>> >
>> > [global]
>> >         tds version = 8.0
>> >
>> > Then the query no longer works:
>> >
>> > echo "select databasepropertyex(DB_NAME(), 'Collation')\ngo" | tsql -H 
>> > server -p 5000 -U sa -P pass
>> > locale is
>> > "LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8;LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8;LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8"
>> > locale charset is "UTF-8"
>> > 1> 2>
>> > NULL
>> > (1 row affected)
>> > 1> %
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