Thanks for the tip.

I have tried it now.

$sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute();
my $lob;
my $chrs_or_bytes_read = $sth->odbc_lob_read(0, \$lob, 65535, { TreatA
+sLOB=>1 });
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Results in .. Column 0 was not bound with TreatAsLOB

I guess this particular DBI method can only be used on columns that are bound to a prepare statement. If that's true, it can not be used in this instance. There is nothing to bind.

$sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->bind_col(1, \$lob);
$sth->execute();
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cannot bind to non-existent field 1
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I am sending a DDL statement (show table) into the database, and expecting to get a DDL script of the particular table as output. Everything works fine up until to a certain size of the DDL script, then I am getting the "truncation" error mentioned in the original post.

Regards, Jan

I can't test this on Terradata but seems to work on MSSQL

my $sth = $dbh->prepare('select lob from table_lob');
$sth->execute();
$sth->bind_col(1, undef, {TreatAsLOB=>1});
$sth->fetch;
$sth->odbc_lob_read(1, \my $data, 65335);
print $data;
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poj

Thank you for the learning opportunity, that worked.

I need to brush my DBI skills a bit more!