diff --git a/storage/connect/ha_connect.cc b/storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
index 73dfa0af1a9d4..502c1f4af6def 100644
--- a/storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
+++ b/storage/connect/ha_connect.cc
@@ -1614,10 +1614,7 @@ void *ha_connect::GetColumnOption(PGLOBAL g, void *field, PCOLINFO pcf)
   pcf->Scale= 0;
   pcf->Opt= (fop) ? (int)fop->opt : 0;
 
-	if (fp->field_length >= 0)
-		pcf->Length= fp->field_length;
-	else
-		pcf->Length= 256;            // BLOB?
+  pcf->Length= fp->field_length;
 
   pcf->Precision= pcf->Length;
 
diff --git a/storage/connect/tabext.cpp b/storage/connect/tabext.cpp
index 96a9f70e4a310..6ece7115ea5fa 100644
--- a/storage/connect/tabext.cpp
+++ b/storage/connect/tabext.cpp
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ bool TDBEXT::MakeSQL(PGLOBAL g, bool cnt)
 
 	if (Quote) {
 		// Tabname can have both database and table identifiers, we need to parse
-		if (res= strstr(buf, "."))
+                if ((res= strstr(buf, ".")))
 		{
 			// Parse schema
 			my_len= res - buf + 1;