Posted by Chung Leong on 10/15/56 11:56
Costas Menico wrote:
> I have an Access database and a table. One of the columns was a memo
> field. If I execute a 'select * from table', all the rows would be
> retrieved but the columns after the memo column had null data.
>
> If I moved the memo field to the end and executed the same SQL the data
> was retrieved propery.
>
> Also if I specified the column name by itself (E.g. select phone from
> table' ), the data was retrieved.
>
> Has anyone seen this kind of problem with any other databases where a
> memo field must be the last one?
That's a known limitation of ODBC I think. Once the driver goes into
blob retrieval mode, it can't retrieve fixed width columns anymore.
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