FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Johnson <serversage AT gmail.com>]

Hey Folks -

First off, all my details:

Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Ubuntu 12.04
Perl 5.14.2
DBI 1.616
DBD::ODBC 1.43
FreeTDS 0.91-1
unixODBC 2.2.14

I'm using perl/freetds to connect to a Microsoft SQL server at a remote 
location.  The server is not controlled by me, I have read-only access, 
nothing more.  My perl script connects using:

DBI->connect 
("dbi:ODBC:DRIVER={FreeTDS};Server=IPOFHOST;Port=1433;DATABASE=NAMEOFDATABASE;OpenMode=0" 
);

I'm able to connect, and run queries on some tables.  But, there is a 
table that has some NCHAR columns.  One of the columns contains some 
unicode.  When I select from that table I get the following error:

DBD::ODBC::st fetchrow_hashref failed: st_fetch/SQLFetch (long truncated 
DBI attribute LongTruncOk not set and/or LongReadLen too small) (SQL-HY000)

This is using TDSVER=7.0 and I have also tried TDSVER=8.0.  Anything 
lower than 7.0 fails to connect.  The table only has 3 rows in it, so 
I'm able to easily figure out that the row causing the problem has the 
following without the quotes:

"CPT ®     "

Setting LongTruncOK lets me run queries, but that is not an acceptable 
solution in this case.  I've tried setting LongReadLen to something 
insanely huge - 500000000 - but that failed with the same error.

I've given tsql a try, both with TDSVER=7.0 and 8.0, and while it 
returns the rows from the table, the row with the unicode character has 
some funky characters and doesn't appear totally correct.

I'm stumped, and have never really had luck with unicode/freetds/perl, 
so I thought I'd reach out and pray that some graceful person would have 
mercy on me.  :)

Thanks folks!

-Brian