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"Catastrophic Failure" or Scripting Errors with Database Queries

Article ID: 159220

Article Last Modified on 9/30/2003

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SYMPTOMS

While running database queries, you may receive a "catastrophic failure" error or other scripting error.

CAUSE

Queries into database tables whose Binary Large Object (BLOB) columns contain NULL as a data value fail when the Content object or ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) is used. (BLOBs are the columns that typically contain LONGVARCHAR and LONGVARBINARY data. For example, in Microsoft SQL Server, TEXT and IMAGE datatypes are BLOBs.)

WORKAROUND

Check to see if you have any BLOB columns in the query. If you see scripting errors in response to queries, check the BLOB columns to make sure they do not contain NULL values. You may want to specify a default value for BLOB columns to avoid this problem.

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