BUG: BCP Cannot Copy Text/Image Data > 64K from SQL Server

• Microsoft SQL Server Programmer's Toolkit, version 4.2

SYMPTOMS

When using the BCP.EXE utility to extract data from a SQL Server, large text and image fields are truncated to 64 kilobytes.

CAUSE

BCP.EXE cannot extract more than the first 64K of data from a text or image field in a SQL Server table.

WORKAROUND

If performing a server to server data transfer to SQL Server for Windows NT, the SQL Transfer Manager can be successfully used to transfer large text or image fields. If exporting data to a flat file, it may be necessary to write a DB-Library (DB-Lib) program that makes use of the dbreadtext() function to extract large blocks of text and image data.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in BCP version 4.2. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: db-lib dblib bulk load import

Keywords          : kbtool SSrvBCP kbbug4.20 
Version           : 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.2
Platform          : MS-DOS OS/2 WINDOWS 
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Last Reviewed: March 18, 1999