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  • From: "Curt Hagenlocher" <curt AT hagenlocher.org>
  • To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: SELECT BINARY_CHECKSUM(*) FROM TABLE ...
  • Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:59:32 -0800


James Cameron <cameron AT stl.dec.com> writes:

> The reason this has come up is that we need to create a PHP form that
> does what a closed source Win32 UI does, and we wanted to determine
> what changes are made by the older program. We had thought to just
> take checksums of everything and test after a transaction. Are
> there better ways to find out what this mystery program does to
> the database?

Hell, yes. SQL Profiler can capture exactly the SQL statements
being executed. I've used it to reverse-engineer the workings of
Rational ClearQuest (not to mention countless man-hours of
debugging my own code).

--
Curt Hagenlocher
curt AT hagenlocher.org




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