[freetds] FreeTDS API basic/newbe question
Brian Bruns
brian.bruns at gmail.com
Fri Apr 20 08:37:34 EDT 2007
Have a look at DRDA (http://www.opengroup.org/dbiop/)
It's used as DB2's native protocol. Unfortunately, as a standard it seems
to be going nowhere.
I did a project called OpenDRDA, that has also gone nowhere due to lack of
time, but I did some preliminary work of bolting this onto both PostgreSQL
and MySQL and someday I may return to it. My thought was that if DB2 + all
the free databases used it then Sybase, Microsoft and Oracle would
eventually be forced to join the fold.
The best laid plans of mice and men....
Brian
2007/4/19, James K. Lowden <jklowden at freetds.org>:
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> I look forward to the day when database clients and servers are as
> interchangeable as are web and email servers and clients. It is a dim and
> distant future, I know. To get there, we need a text-based protocol, even
> if it includes an xs:base64Binary encoding option. (There is no example
> of a widely implemented free binary protocol, unless you count NFS, which
> I don't.) It certainly won't put the proprietary/specialized protocols
> out of business right away, but it would simplify and standardize database
> access.
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> I personally believe this will a logical outgrowth of the widespread
> adoption of free databases.
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