i've just found this online 
String Data Handling   (from http://search.cpan.org/~mewp/DBD-Sybase/d
+bd-sybase.pod)

DBD::Sybase supports CHAR/VARCHAR/BINARY/VARBINARY, limited to 255 cha
+racters in length up to version 12.0x. As of 12.5 these datatypes can
+ be up to 16K in size - but supporting the larger sizes requires that
+ Open Client 12.5 or later be used. Note that the CHAR type is fixed 
+length (blank padded).

Sybase automatically converts CHAR and VARCHAR data between the charac
+ter set of the server (see the syscharset system table) and the chara
+cter set of the client, defined by the locale setting of the client. 
+The BINARY and VARBINARY types are not converted. UTF-8 is supported.

See the OpenClient International Developer's Guide in the Sybase OpenC
+lient manuals for more on character set issues.
Strings can be concatenated using the + SQL operator.

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it sort of implies that the limitation is stuck at fetching a max of 255 character per blob. Am I wrong(i hope so)?

Edit: pre tags replaced with code tags

In reply to Re^4: DBI::Sybase -retrieving BLOB values from ms-sql question by anexiole
in thread DBI::Sybase -retrieving BLOB values from ms-sql question by anexiole

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