I am not sure for DBI:Sybase, but there could be some trouble with 255 characters.

1. driver and other version problem(TDS? I found http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds/7075
2. explicit bind_param http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=491253
3. DBI's LongReadLen http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.618/DBI.pm#LongReadLen


I tested to fetch long field with MS Access's memo field (DBI::ADO). 1000byte. I thought I see the same trouble once before with MS Access(may that be a dream of mine?). But it returns long field fine on windows without explicit bind_param nor setting LongReadLen... It was just fine.

I forget where I saw the same situation. Sorry for uncertain information.

In reply to Re^3: Unable to retrieve field which has more than 255 chars by remiah
in thread Unable to retrieve field which has more than 255 chars by Anonymous Monk

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