ue to lack of
staff with Linux knowledge).
Thanks for the info and the work around
Oliver
-Original Message-
From: Brian Bruns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 03 February 2002 22:53
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Php-Db ML
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Is ODBC now the Native interface for MS
Technically, it is not the dblib interface that limits you to 255
character varchars. TDS (tabular datastream, the on the wire protocol)
version 4.2 (the version used upto SQL Server 6.5) is limited to a single
byte size field and thus 255 characters (0 represents NULL). The problem
is that
After looking at the newsgroup microsoft.public.sqlserver.odbc I came
across
the follwing piece of information - anyone know if it is true? It would
certainly explain a few things (why we can only get 255 chars out of
varchars etc). Should I move my code over to ODBC? I have tried but the
