What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Connect to Netezza database
2. Select a NUMBER value or a VARCHAR
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
1. Number value should come back with the value instead comes back with invalid literal for Decimal: u'
2. VARCHAR value gets trimmed at the front losing 4 characters e.g. value that should be "foo-bar" returns "bar"
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
pyodbc-3.0.7-py2.6 on RHEL
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