PRB: Error TDS Buffer Length too Large

ID: Q137026

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual Basic Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0
Microsoft Visual Basic Standard and Professional Editions for Windows, version 3.0

SYMPTOMS

You may receive the following error when connecting to SQL Server under Microsoft Windows NT version 3.5 via named pipes from a Microsoft Windows for Workgroups version 3.11 client over the IPX/SPX-Compatible transport (NWLink):

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]TDS buffer length too large(#0)

RESOLUTION

For a workaround to this problem, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q121258 PRB: Connect to SQL on NT 3.5 from WFW 3.11 via Named Pipes

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

Additional query words: 3.00 4.00 vb4win vb4all

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