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  • From: John Kendall <john AT capps.com>
  • To: FreeTDS Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Differentiate Sybase from SQL Server
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 05:13:00 +0000

Igor,
Would

select @@version

work for you?
John





> On Jul 28, 2018, at 10:04 PM, Igor Korot <ikorot01 AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Is there a way to differentiate between Sybase and SQL Server
> other than by the TDS protocol version?
>
> I need an implementation of SQLDescribeCol(), but the information
> about column is located in a different table for those DBMSes.
> I can probably check what TDS version is used for a connection,
> but it is not very reliable way of doing things.
>
> Thank you.
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