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Is there a work around (other than changing the column type to a textfield) for SELECTing a large varchar field using PHP and mssql library? For instance a varchar(500). Does PHP really restrict the number of characters to 255? Is there a way to pull back more than that?
From the PHP page, the problem seems to be the underlying database driver on Windows platforms. Varchar can only return < 255 characters. The work around is to cast the varchar to text within the sql SELECT statement.