Re: nvarchar(max) field in result set identified as WVARCHAR, not WLONGVARCHAR

Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]> Sun, 1 Feb 2015 10:07:03 +0000

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2014-09-24 21:28 GMT+01:00 Matt Grimm <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> When I use SQLColAttributeW(... SQL_DESC_CONCISE_TYPE ...) to ask FreeTDS
> for the type of an nvarchar(max) column in my result set, it calls it a
> SQL_WVARCHAR (-9). However, when I ask it for the type of an ntext field,
> it calls it a SQL_WLONGVARCHAR. Since nvarchar(max) is the replacement for
> ntext[1], shouldn't FreeTDS return -10 as the type of nvarchar(max) too?
>
> Thanks,
> m.
>


Hi,
  probably it should but actually is the same reply I get from MS ODBC.

Frediano