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POSQL Server Error "Invalid attempt to GetBytes on column"
 

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    <p>Little background:</p> <p>Recently I upgraded "SQL server management studio 2005" by applying the patch from MS link <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;id=7218" rel="noreferrer">http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;id=7218</a></p> <p>So that, I can access the recently built DB server which are in SQL Server 2008 version.</p> <p>I have a server link created on the 2008 Db server which connects to a Oracle DB. earlier I didn't faced any issue but after applying the management studio patch whenever I run a query using the server link as below</p> <pre><code>select top 10 * from [server]..DBNAME.TABLENAME </code></pre> <p>OR</p> <pre><code>select * from [server]..DBNAME.TABLENAME </code></pre> <p>I get the error</p> <blockquote> <p>An error occurred while executing batch. Error message is: Invalid attempt to GetBytes on column colname'. The GetBytes function can only be used on columns of type Text, NText, or Image."</p> </blockquote> <p>But if I change the query to </p> <pre><code>select top 10 col1,col2 from [server]..DBNAME.TABLENAME </code></pre> <p>OR</p> <pre><code>select distinct col1, col2, col3 from [server]..DBNAME.TABLENAME </code></pre> <p>It runs fine without any issue.</p> <p>I am not sure but my believe is it's something to do with <code>Management Studio</code> ... some setting in <code>Management Studio</code> probably causing this issue.</p> <p>Does anyone have any idea Or have faced this issue before. Can you please help.</p> <p>EDIT: If I run the problem query using <code>sqlcmd</code> it runs fine.</p> <p>Thanks.</p>
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    1. COIf you think it is management studio, try running the above query via SQLCMD. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162773.aspx sqlcmd -S servername -d master -Q "select * from [server]..DBNAME.TABLENAME"
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    2. CO@billinkc, yea I already tried that and that's why mentioned that the issue is with SSMS.
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    3. COSeems like the logical answer is to stop using SELECT *?
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