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I have a test database that contains a varbinary(max) field and a varchar(max) field.

when I do a

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'driver=SQL Server;Server'

but these two fields return no data if I use

'driver=SQL Native Client'

the other fields in the record come back with no problems.

Is there anything special I need to do to retrieve these types of fields?

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