BIGENDIAN
Mark J. Lilback
mark at lilback.com
Thu Jul 12 10:37:01 EDT 2001
At 7:13 AM -0400 7/12/01, Brian Bruns wrote:
>Mark,
>
>Is this limited to an MS-SQL server? It seems to be the date problem all
>over again. I'm thinking that we will support a 'emulate little endian'
>mode for big end machines that will be used with TDS 7 and for big end
>machines connecting to broken versions of SQL Server. Which version is
>the server that exhibits this behaviour?
This is with SQL Server 7, pre SP3. I've conditionalized my code so
that once a connection is open, I query the server to get what
version it is("master.dbo.xp_msver ProductVersion"). If it is less
than 961, I set dbproc->tds_socket->broken_dates to 1, otherwise i
set it to 0. (Since SP3 fixes the bigendian date problem.)
I'm compiling freetds into a plugin for MacSQL Monitor, a generic
database tool. Because I need a lot of specific data not provided by
any of the apis, the plugin is hard-coded for SQL Server only. That's
all I've tested against, too.
For this patch, it might be possible to detect if it is necessary.
It's been a while since I was debugging this, but I believe you'll
get a completely impossible message code if the data isn't swapped
properly (I think it is negative, but I'd have to check). The test
could be if bigendian and if (rc < 0).
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