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Re: Mysterious null-padding

by Corion (Patriarch)
on Jan 28, 2016 at 08:50 UTC ( [id://1153826]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Mysterious null-padding

I have no deep insight on DBD::ODBC, but maybe you can use the ->bind_param method of DBI to tell DBI to keep the data as-is instead of trying to convert the data to some other encoding.

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Re^2: Mysterious null-padding
by belg4mit (Prior) on Jan 28, 2016 at 15:40 UTC
    We have a winner! As mje was able to confirm, MicroSoft is not <drumRoll/> fully standards compliant, and is massaging the data because it assumes it's a VARCHAR.

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