ODBC query on MS SQL Server returning first 255 characters only in PHP PDO (FreeTDS)

Question

I\'m currently trying to pull some data from a SQL Server database view that we have restricted access to from our Linux web server.

We don\'t need to edit the data

Answer 1

According to the FreeTDS User Guide, the issue seems to be that FreeTDS can only handle varchar up to 255 characters when talking to SQL Server "due to limitations inherent in the protocol definition". Anything bigger than that needs to be data type text.

You can resolve the issue either by modifying your schema accordingly, or converting the data type during your query, like this:

SELECT CAST(mycol as TEXT) FROM mytable