When retrieving ODBC results from Sybase SQL Anywhere 6 and 9, the column names are being truncated to 31 characters. -- <?php $DBN = 'thedbn'; $UID = 'theuid'; $PWD = 'thepws'; $CONN = odbc_connect( $DBN, $UID, $PWD ) or die( "Cannot connect to $DBN."); $sql = "select * from crap"; $result = odbc_exec( $CONN, $sql ); for( $i = 1 ; $i <= odbc_num_fields( $result ) ; $i++ ) { $name = odbc_field_name( $result, $i ); ${$name} = odbc_result( $result, $name ); print( "$i: $name - ${$name}\n" ); } ?> Result: 1: key - 4 2: a_really_long_name_that_is_long - 5 3: longer_name - 6 I expected #2 to have the name: a_really_long_name_that_is_longer_than_31_characters -- This happens even if the column name is simply specified using sql 'AS' (i.e. "select column as a_really_long_name_that_is_longer_than_31_characters from crap" would still return "a_really_long_name_that_is_long" as the column name). Using PHP 4.3.4 on Windows 2000 Server. Have also tried on SUSE Linux as well as with PHP 5. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php