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  • From: Daniel Fazekas <fdsubs AT t-online.hu>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] libdbi - freetds driver
  • Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:59:33 +0200


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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fds





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