MSSQL Query issue in PHP and querying text data

Question

I\'m trying a query in PHP to connect and extract data from a MSSQL EXPRESS (2008 R2) database. But i\'m getting an error when i\'m pulling ntext based data from the DB.

Answer 1

Couple of options from the comments on the mssql_query() manual page

• SELECT CAST(field1 AS TEXT) AS field1 FROM table
• Chang the version in /etc/freetds.conf from 4.2 to 8.0 (if the PHP server is *nix)
• Avoid SELECT * queries

Plenty more if you search ntext on that page.