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  • From: "ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>
  • To: "FreeTDS Development Group" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] support of SQL_ATTR_CONNECTION_DEAD
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:55:32 +0100

>
> Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > > I'm trying to get my code working with the FreeTDS driver
> (0.64) on
> > > Mac OS X, and notice that the attribute SQL_ATTR_CONNECTION_DEAD
> > > isn't supported....
> ....
> > > My question is: are there any efforts underway to add ODBC 3.5
> > > features to the driver, including the CONNECTION_DEAD
> attribute?
> >
> > Nothing difficult to add :)
>
> Viva la difference!
>
> When I see "I'm trying to get my code working with the FreeTDS driver
> (0.64) on Mac OS X", I immediately assume there's a libtool
> or Unicode or
> other portability issue.
>
> You know the ODBC driver has come of age when it's being compared to
> proprietary implementations, recommended by commercial products, and
> people are asking about 3.5 features.
>
> It is a complex piece of work, and it's taken many years and
> iterations.
> It's not done, of course -- what is? -- but it's come a long way.
>
> With Frediano at the helm, a great many people have
> contributed to this
> driver, some with great gobs of code, some with a bug report or a
> question. As they survey their work, I hope they feel
> commensurate pride
> in their accomplishment.
>

I sitll remember when I started looking at FreeTDS driver... odbc driver
was maily a stub for unimplemented functions... one of the first patches
I sent was implementation of SQLFunctions and commenting out stubs...

After some years we can see "some" results :)

freddy77




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