Question

I am getting the error

No data! (sqlJadual)

From this query

mssql_query("SELECT * 
             from tblstatusjadual 
             where idjadual like '1%' and 
                   tahun='2011' 
             order by idjadual") or die('No data! (sqlJadual)');

But, when i change it to

mssql_query("SELECT idjadual,status 
             from tblstatusjadual 
             where idjadual like '1%' and 
             tahun='2011' 
             order by idjadual") or die('No data! (sqlJadual)');

it works fine.

it’s okay if I only select from 2 fields, but when I want to select more than 15 fields the query become long and confusing.

my question is mssql does not support select * in their query?

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

I’m mentioning my comment as an answer here ’cause it helped you and the next time anyone visits/faces a similar kind of situation, he/she may refer this (instead of scanning the whole string of the above comments’ series).

If you issue a SELECT * against an MSSQL table and your table contains a TEXT column with a blank string, you either

1) Change the datatype of that column to varchar
2) Reset the value of the column from blank string to NULL.

to make the SELECT * work.

(On another note, I’ll recommend instead of using SELECT *, you include only those columns in your query which you really require.)