FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

2016-08-05 18:03 GMT+01:00 Karen Pease <Karen.Pease AT isavia.is>:
> Hi, all. I'm trying to get a piece of software to work on 64 bit and as a 
> consequence I can no longer use the "sybase-ocsd" package that we'd been 
> using, since I can only locate it in 32 bit.  So I'm trying FreeTDS.  But I 
> can't make heads or tails of the error I'm getting.
>
> In my code, I'm running:
>
>     dbcmd (ET_dbproc, " select distinct a.program_name, b.name ");
>     dbcmd (ET_dbproc, " from sysprocesses a, sysdatabases b");
>     dbcmd (ET_dbproc, " where a.dbid = b.dbid");
>     dbsqlexec (ET_dbproc);
>     SYDBRESULT (ET_dbproc);
>     dbbind (ET_dbproc, 1, NTBSTRINGBIND, (DBCHAR) 0, program);
>     dbbind (ET_dbproc, 2, NTBSTRINGBIND, (DBCHAR) 0, dname);
>     printf("%d\n", __LINE__);
>     dbnextrow(ET_dbproc);
>     printf("%d\n", __LINE__);
>     printf ("program %s, dname %s", program, dname);
>
> Program and dname are of course character arrays.  On the database end, 
> a.program_name is a char(8) and name is sysname(30).
>
> From that, I see:
>
>     421
>     syeh: DB-lib error, no 20050, Attempt to convert data stopped by syntax 
> error in source field
>              os error, Success
>     423
>     program , dname
>
>
> Dumping the debug output to a file, it ends like:
>
> -------
> token.c:564:processing result tokens.  marker is  d1(ROW)
> token.c:1951:tds_process_row(): reading column 0
> data.c:534:tds_get_data: type 47, varint size 1
> data.c:587:tds_get_data(): wire column size is 16
> token.c:1951:tds_process_row(): reading column 1
> data.c:534:tds_get_data: type 39, varint size 1
> data.c:587:tds_get_data(): wire column size is 6
> util.c:165:Changed query state from READING to PENDING
> buffering.h:305:buffer_transfer_bound_data(0x24c2670 4040 -1 0x24c2660 0)
> dblib.c:7210:copy_data_to_host_var(47 [SYBCHAR] len 16 => 60 [SYBMONEY] len 
> 0)
> dblib.c:7364:copy_data_to_host_var(): tds_convert returned 8
> dblib.c:7210:copy_data_to_host_var(39 [SYBVARCHAR] len 6 => 60 [SYBMONEY] 
> len 0)
> dblib.c:7364:copy_data_to_host_var(): tds_convert returned -3
> dblib.c:7925:dbperror(0x24c2660, 20050, 0)
> dblib.c:7993:dbperror: Calling dblib_err_handler with msgno = 20050; 
> msg->msgtext = "Attempt to convert data stopped by syntax error in source 
> field"
> dblib.c:4865:dbdead(0x24c2660) [alive]
> dblib.c:8015:dbperror: dblib_err_handler for msgno = 20050; msg->msgtext = 
> "Attempt to convert data stopped by syntax error in source field" -- 
> returns 2 (INT_CANCEL)
> dblib.c:2117:leaving dbnextrow() returning REG_ROW/MORE_ROWS
> -------
>
> Huh? SYBMONEY?  How did money come into the picture here?
>
> Lots more errors are coming up, but let's start at the beginning with this, 
> because it's sure left me scratching my head...
>
> (Full disclosure: I'm a newbie at Sybase; my experience lies mainly with 
> postgres. But the task at hand for me involves porting our app to 64 bit, 
> so....)
>
>
>  - kv, Karen
>


Simple, you are using Sybase headers and linking with FreeTDS.
NTBSTRINGBIND is 13 under Sybase headers but 13 is MONEYBIND in
FreeTDS headers.
There is no ABI compatibility.

Frediano