RE: [PHP-WIN] SQL Server 2000 and PHP 4.3.1
| From: | Charles P. Killmer | Date: | Mon, 12 May 2003 21:43:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-WIN] SQL Server 2000 and PHP 4.3.1 | ||
| Groups: | php.windows | ||
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Wow nice of them to upgrade their server product but not the methods to access it.
Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank M. Kromann [mailto:frank@kromann.info]
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 4:21 PM
To: Charles P. Killmer
Cc: php-windows@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] SQL Server 2000 and PHP 4.3.1
You can call it a bug, but it is caused by limitations in DBLib, provided by Microsoft. This library
has not been updated since SQL Server 6.0 !
Iøm working on a solution to use FreeTDS on Win32. Until I have a working solution, you can avoid
using (var)char columns greater than 256.
- Frank
> SQL Server 2000 allows varchar(8000) though trying to read that
> through PHP returns only 255 characters.
>
> Do I have to set some special configuration to get the other 7000+
> characters? Or is this a bug?
>
> Charles Killmer
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