this is a behavior of ODBC and/or FreeTDS and how it converts data when sending 
to the database.   you might need to use CAST() to make sure the datatypes line 
up.




On Apr 1, 2013, at 8:07 AM, Serendipity <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am getting this error "The data types varchar and text are incompatible in 
> the equal to operator" when I try to run a filter or select on a column 
> defined as VARCHAR 500. This happens only when the record in question has 
> more than 255 characters.
> 
> The funny thing is in the mssql query editor this error is not appearing.
> When I relplace "==" with "like" on this query I am able to fetch the results 
> without a problem.
> Although my problem is solved I would like to know what actually happened 
> when I used "=="
> 
> Thanks.
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