You could add a column for the length of varchar(max) content and sort on that descending. Then you will know if the width of Fox cursor is actually getting all of the data.
On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 2:25 PM Kevin J Cully kjcully@cherokeega.com wrote:
I was looking for an old blog post but I couldn't find it. At times there may be a problem with the ODBC connection and using CAST(), especially with VARCHAR(max). If you ever experience problem using CAST() and accessing a field of type VARCHAR(max), take a look at CONVERT(). This will work with VFP ( and Xojo! ) to access these fields where CAST() fails.
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Paul H. Tarver Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2018 3:14 PM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: RE: SPT and Remote Views
+1
Paul H. Tarver Tarver Program Consultants, Inc.
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Charlie-gm Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2018 2:46 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: SPT and Remote Views
Just a quick FYI.
If using SQL Pass-through, don't forget you have the "CAST()" syntax available (you can convert dates to strings, set a size of the character length, etc). I've used it frequently to ensure a "proper" (expected) VFP data type output result.
-Charlie
On 11/6/2018 12:08 PM, Chris Davis wrote:
Not really, I can issue the query once and I get C(10) and again and I get
M(10) with the whole value in it.
It seems to be an issue with the Filemaker ODBC driver, they suggested VFP
does ODBC v1? And their driver only supports ODBC v2?
Whatever the issue is, Remote Views seem to get around it. I would just
like to be able to get around it using SPT.
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Tuesday, 06 November 2018 16:53 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: SPT and Remote Views
Remote views, as you've indicated, let you specify the target structure of
the query.
When you execute direct SPT Fox attempts to get the first record matching
the query, and uses the structure of that result as the (fixed column) structure of the result set. So, if you have a varying-length string
(varchar) and the first result is 3 characters, VFP might create a C(3)
field, which could truncate everything else. Does that describe what you are seeing?
On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 10:54 AM Chris Davis chrisd@actongate.co.uk
wrote:
Hi All
What extra happens when using Remove Views over SPT?
Using the same ODBC conneciton to a Filemaker database if I do "select
- from ...." I get mixed results for the text strings.
If I perform the same query via a remote view I get the same mixed
result.
But if I go one step further with the Remote View and specifc properties of the fields it manages to pull complete information out of
filemaker.
So what extra is Remote View managing to ask of the Filemaker ODBC driver to make it behave?
Any ideas?
Regards
Chris.
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