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  • From: "Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>
  • To: "'TDS Development Group'" <freetds AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: SQL 2000 and freetds on linux
  • Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:18:42 -0400


> From: Mohammed Abukhalid [mailto:m_abukhalid AT hotmail.com]
> Sent: August 30, 2002 8:25 AM
>
> Im getting a lot of mixed opinions on this from reading in
> the archives
> and other resources. Does ver 0.53 support clean access to
> microsoft SQL
> 2000 server? and if so which tds version is recommended?

Hi, Mohammed. Welcome to FreeTDS.

I think all the developers would recommend you get the most recent snapshot.
There's nothing wrong, particularly, with 0.53, but 0.60 is much more
featureful, and has some improvements specifically for SQL Server 2000.
We're putting together a new release, so any little problems you find will
get fixed quickly. Big problems are another matter, but there won't be
anything in the new release that would make you want to go back to 0.53.

> Also is it normal that after configuring freetds as such:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freetds --enable-msdblib
> --enable-dbmfix
> --with-tdsver=7.0
> and then having a successful make, if I try to do a make
> check to see how well its doing, it fails all 6 tests?

Only if the PWD file or freetds.conf isn't set up.

> I am basically trying to get freetds 0.53 working with
> php4.2.2 on a linux
> box (kernel 2.4.19) to access SQL server 2000 on a win2k box

That's a common arrangement, known to work.

Regards,

--jkl

P.S. --enable-dbmfix isn't needed anymore in 0.60. Not sure all the docs
reflect that.



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  • SQL 2000 and freetds on linux, Mohammed Abukhalid, 08/30/2002
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    • RE: SQL 2000 and freetds on linux, Lowden, James K, 08/30/2002

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