Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
Binary or blob data type
Message
 
 
To
09/04/2019 12:25:50
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01668007
Message ID:
01668019
Views:
35
>>Antonio,
>>Thank you very much. I will try both cases. I am just wondering what choice is better for me when mapping the VFP cursor to the SQL Server table column type varbinary(250) via cursor adapter.
>
>Dmitry,
>
>The difference between Varbinary and Blob is basically their size limits. Varbinary type limits the size of the field to 254, while Blob can go behind data up to VFP Memo size limits (2^31 - 1, I think, but who's counting?).
>
>Set the MapBinary property to .T. so that your CursorAdapter correctly maps the binary data types between VFP and your ODBC source.

Thank you, Antonio. I will try your suggestions.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
Previous
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform