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by sarciszewski 4225 days ago
D) Nope. I wrote the tool and tested it multiple times. The data kept coming out malformed, and playing with mb_convert_encoding() didn't really help much.

I appreciate the feedback though. This was my only time ever using MS SQL.

(Re: the 255 char thing, I had to edit the /etc/tsql/tsql.conf to change the sybase version to make the problem go away. Not a MSSQL problem, but definitely a problem with using it from a PHP + nginx on Linux env.)