RE: [PHP-WIN] SQL Server 2000 and PHP 4.3.1

I just checked and ASP is able to access the data beyond 256. Can PHP use ADO? If so Should I use ADO? Charles -----Original Message----- From: Charles P. Killmer Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 4:43 PM To: php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] SQL Server 2000 and PHP 4.3.1 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 > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php