Hi Sergey,

You are a star - many thanks for that pointer.

To get this to work properly you must add an option to the end of the connection string.

lnHandle = SQLSTRINGCONNECT("driver=dvrname;server=srvname;uid=user;pwd=passwd;option=134217728;")

Now the returned table has a memo field for the Longtext data.

Kind Regards,
Mark Hall



>Mark,
>
>Looks like it's MySQL ODBC bug tha has been i fixed in 5.1.2. See http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=30890 for details.
>
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>>I have a MySQL 5 database table with a Longtext field. I have the MySQL ODBC Connector installed. I am using VFP 9 SP2.
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>>I have been able to populate the table from VFP using SQL pass-through.
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>>Now I want to retrieve the Longtext data from the table.
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>>lnHandle = SQLSTRINGCONNECT(......)
>>lcQuery = "SELECT id, textfield FROM textdata"
>>lnResult = SQLEXEC( lnHandle, lcQuery,'outdata)
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>>All works fine, EXCEPT the Longtext data is always truncated to 255 characters.
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>>I have seen CURSORSETPROP('mapbinary') and CURSORSETPROP('maptext') which allow me to change the type of the field created in the 'outdata' table from Char to VarChar, but it's still truncated to 255 characters.
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