what is the limitation of getString(column name)?

[satishkumar janakiraman]

Hi,

I am reading data from excel sheet using jdbc. One string column has a value with 300 characters long. I am using the following statement

 String str = resultset.getString(3);   

This works fine for all other values. But when I read the value with 300 characters long. It will read only 250 charactes. The remaining characters are truncated.
Any idea or pointer to resolve this problem ?

bye for now
sat

[Scott Selikoff]

Might be a driver limitation of some kind, but in general, there's no such limit in most JDBC drivers (at least not lower than 2000 characters). It's probably drawing the line at ~256 because of character encoding.

What driver are you using? It might be best to consult the makers of the driver on the limit.

[satishkumar janakiraman]

Hi,

This is my connection statement

  Class.forName( "sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver" );
        excelconnection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls)};DBQ=" + filename);  

bye for now
sat