FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

2014-10-03 15:21 GMT+01:00 Yavuz Gökırmak <yavuz.gokirmak AT infoowl.net>:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using freetds to do bulk load from linux to mssql,
> it is interesting that we get some problem during "SET FMTONLY ON.." query,
> it is just getting table columns but somehow it gets the table lock and
> blocks other bulk load operations..
>
> do you have any idea,
> is it possible to disable this "set fmtonly" query and give table column
> names manually instead..
> regards.
>

Hi,
  probably adding a (nolock) to the query like

SET FMTONLY ON select * from clickstream.dbo.clicks_t(nolock) SET FMTONLY OFF

can help.

> dblib.c:1369:dbsqlexec(0xaba400)
> dblib.c:6862:dbsqlsend(0xaba400)
> mem.c:615:tds_free_all_results()
> util.c:156:Changed query state from IDLE to QUERYING
> write.c:139:tds_put_string converting 73 bytes of "SET FMTONLY ON select *
> from clickstream.dbo.clicks_t SET FMTONLY OFF"
> write.c:167:tds_put_string wrote 146 bytes
> util.c:156:Changed query state from QUERYING to PENDING
> net.c:743:Sending packet
> 0000 01 01 00 9a 00 00 01 00-53 00 45 00 54 00 20 00 |........ S.E.T. .|
> 0010 46 00 4d 00 54 00 4f 00-4e 00 4c 00 59 00 20 00 |F.M.T.O. N.L.Y. .|
> 0020 4f 00 4e 00 20 00 73 00-65 00 6c 00 65 00 63 00 |O.N. .s. e.l.e.c.|
> 0030 74 00 20 00 2a 00 20 00-66 00 72 00 6f 00 6d 00 |t. .*. . f.r.o.m.|
> 0040 20 00 65 00 76 00 61 00-6d 00 63 00 6c 00 69 00 | .......... ..c.l.i.|
> 0050 63 00 6b 00 73 00 74 00-72 00 65 00 61 00 6d 00 |c.k.s.t. r.e.a.m.|
> 0060 2e 00 64 00 62 00 6f 00-2e 00 63 00 6c 00 69 00 |..d.b.o. ..c.l.i.|
> 0070 63 00 6b 00 73 00 5f 00-74 00 20 00 53 00 45 00 |c.k.s._. t. .S.E.|
> 0080 54 00 20 00 46 00 4d 00-54 00 4f 00 4e 00 4c 00 |T. .F.M. T.O.N.L.|
> 0090 59 00 20 00 4f 00 46 00-46 00                   |Y. .O.F. F.|
>
> dblib.c:4639:dbsqlok(0xaba400)
> dblib.c:4669:dbsqlok() not done, calling tds_process_tokens()
> token.c:540:tds_process_tokens(0xabaee0, 0x7ffff1375b30, 0x7ffff1375b34,
> 0x6914)
> util.c:156:Changed query state from PENDING to READING
>

Regards,
  Frediano