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  • From: "Reid, Roger L." <roger.reid AT dpw.com>
  • To: "FreeTDS Development Group" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] SQL Server 2005 / 2008 support
  • Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:42:11 -0500

James, if you can put this conversation, Gradus ad Parnassus style, to a
prominent place in the bit of documentation
that the project has (or as a readme in the source?) you'd do yourself and
newcomers a real favor, I think.

Mythology always needs a "genesis" chapter for the newcomer, and I think what
you wrote to help SF may qualify well.

Funny thing about the MS "anti-support". Last time I read their Sybase->SQL
Server porting tome, it was explicit that FreeTDS was the only way to keep
your Unix/Linux etc programs running if you moved the database to SQL Server.
(Of course, only until you finish rewriting your unattended Unix reporting
job into an interactive wizard that requires 20 minutes of George Jetson
button clicking every time you want to run it. Good for full employment, if
nothing else!)

BTW, to be fair to MS, they dropped dblib support long ago. It runs in 2005
and 2008, but you can't get it from them, you need
to get it off an old 2000 install.


-----Original Message-----
From: James K. Lowden [mailto:jklowden AT freetds.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:47 AM
To: FreeTDS Development Group
Subject: Re: [freetds] SQL Server 2005 / 2008 support


> - There is no official support for SQL Server 2005 / 2008 (only TDS 8.0)

And guess what? There's no official support, full stop. Everything we
know about TDS 7.0 and up is inferred by reverse engineering the TDS
packets.




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