FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

Михаил Гаврилов wrote:
> May be better by default don't limit size of fields?

That's the way it used to be, but people had problem running out of
memory, partly because Microsoft servers report the column size as 4GB. 
So we chose a "reasonable" default and noted it in the FAQ.  

--jkl