You will have much better results if you use the odbtp extension instead
of the odbc extenstion, especially on Linux. The odbtp_field_type()
function will give you the correct type name.
Also, you could use the mssql extension. However, mssql_field_type()
returns type names that are not exact.
Hi
Thanks for your answer but :
What is odbtp extension I don't find it on www.php.net ???
I use ADOdb to database abstraction and I can't change all the ADOdb code.
Do you know why the function odbc_field_type don't give me the good result
?
Is is a PHP error, an unixODBC error or a
The latest version of ADODb supports odbtp. You can get it at
http://odbtp.sourceforge.net. There are 2 versions of the ADODb driver:
odbtp and odbtp_unicode. The problem you are having is caused by the
inability of the ODBC driver to provide what the desired information. The
FreeTDS ODBC driver
