There seems to be an issue with SPSS while reading data from an MS-SQL-Server instance. Notably with the SQL datatype “bigint”. Assume the following SPSS syntax: GET DATA    /TYPE=ODBC    /CONNECT=’DSN=my_dsn;SERVER=server_name;Trusted_Connection=yes;DATABASE=db_name’    /SQL = ‘SELECT year FROM  my_table’ . EXECUTE. If the field in question (in this case: “year”) is of SQL-type “bigint” then … Continue reading SPSS, MS-SQL2008 & bigint