Re: Testing 0.95: What TDS version for SQL Server 2012 / 2014?

>>>          colname = t
>>>          type = 39 (varchar)
>>>          server's type = 167 (xvarchar)
>>>          column_varint_size = 8
>>>          column_size = 1073741823 (1073741823 on server)
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>
>> Please try SQLDescribeCol. Libtds have slightly different point of view.
>> As stated from Ms documentation varchar max is returned as varchar with
>> size 0 (unlimited). Same for freetds.
>
> ??? I am confused... of course using SQLDescribeCol(), I just copied
> lines from TDSDUMP...
>
> Why can I see:
>
>      column_size = 1073741823 (1073741823 on server)
>
> Remember: I am using SQL Server 2014... did you try with SQL Server 2014?
>
It is my experience with dblib also. That varchar(MAX) returns for 
column size "big number", not 0
(I thought that it is as expected)
-Laco.