[freetds] libdbi - freetds driver
Daniel Fazekas
fdsubs at t-online.hu
Fri Aug 19 05:59:33 EDT 2005
On Aug 19, 2005, at 9:52, Vadym Kononenko wrote:
> [userApp] <-> [libDBI] <-> [DBD-FreeTDS shared object (driver)] <->
> [libtds] <=TDS=> [MSSQL/Sybase DBMS]"
> is better than
> [userApp] <-> [libDBI] <-> [DBD-FreeTDS shared object (driver)] <->
> [ct-lib or
> any other] <-> [libtds] <=TDS=> [MSSQL/Sybase DBMS]
Think of it this way: by using ct-lib you are also getting
compatibility with Sybase's official ct-lib, not just FreeTDS.
FreeTDS isn't meant to be a newly invented API interface to MSSQL or
Sybase, it aims to be a drop-in replacement for the closed-source db-
lib and ct-lib libraries of the original vendors. You shouldn't be
concerned with implementation details beyond that, such as that the
current FreeTDS versions internally use a library named libtds.
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