problem with odbc database driver

[eluser]Nir Gavish[/eluser]
i've run into a curious problem with the odbc driver.
i'm connecting from a linux machine to an MSSQL 2008 machine with odbc.

while i get that the 'num_rows' function always returns -1, and that is fully a database/driver issue - for some reason when i try to create a ->result(), the whole application crashes (error 500, sometimes just a blank page), if i'm lucky, i get an error message informing me that the application died because it tried to allocated 2 terrabytes of memory(!).

This happens irregularly, ie: every few refreshes. sometimes it runs fine, sometimes the page returns error 500 and sometimes it gives the memory allocation error - in any case it's not really something that can be reproduced with percision, and the queries are SUPER simple.

what gives?