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- From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>
- To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [freetds] 2008 Data Types For DBLIB
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:06:04 -0400
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:14:00 -0400
Ken Collins <ken AT metaskills.net> wrote:
> Does anyone think they will be needing or working on supporting these
> data types [date], [datetime2], [datetimeoffset], and [time] using
> DBLIB? Right now they come back to me as SYBTEXT
Needing, yes, working on, no.
It's not a db-lib issue. It's a protocol issue: unless the client
defines itself as using TDS 7.3, the server returns those types as
varchar strings. The client never sees tbem in binary form.
See my message of 11 May 2011, "What's new list in FreeTDS 0.91 and
0.92".
HTH.
--jkl
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[freetds] 2008 Data Types For DBLIB,
Ken Collins, 07/27/2011
- Re: [freetds] 2008 Data Types For DBLIB, Ken Collins, 07/27/2011
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Re: [freetds] 2008 Data Types For DBLIB,
James K. Lowden, 07/28/2011
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Re: [freetds] 2008 Data Types For DBLIB,
Ken Collins, 07/28/2011
- Re: [freetds] 2008 Data Types For DBLIB, Frediano Ziglio, 07/29/2011
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Re: [freetds] 2008 Data Types For DBLIB,
Ken Collins, 07/28/2011
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