in reply to DBI: $sth->{NAME}

From "Programming the Perl DBI", p. 323:

"The names of identifiers, such as tables and columns, cannot exceed thirty characters in length."

From what I remember, this limitation is in Sybase (at least up thru 10.2) itself. MS SQL Server also appears to have this limitation.

Pat

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Re: Re: DBI: $sth->{NAME}
by crouchingpenguin (Priest) on Sep 12, 2002 at 20:57 UTC
    Indeed this seems to be the case:
    The names of Sybase identifiers, such as tables and columns, cannot exceed 30 characters in length.
    from the dbd-sybase.pod.

    I guess I will have to cheat. Thanks for the time and help.