FreeTDS Development Group

[Gregg Jensen <greggj AT savvis.com>]

Craig Spannring wrote:

> I went to http://franklin.oit.unc.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?join=freetds
> and joined the mailing list, but I recieved no instructions on
> what address to use to send messages to the list.  (I'm using
> the web page to send this one, but I'd prefer using my own mailer.)
> What is the list address?

You should be able to send to:  freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu

>
>
>
> Seriously though, on the FreeTDS page is says that TDS 4.2 and 5.0 is
> targeted.  Is 5.0 a Sysbase-only version?  I've never seen that
> version number in any packet dumps of any of the M$ products I'm
> using to generate test packets with.

Yes, MS-SQL Server 6.5 only uses TDS 4.2 and Sybase is at 5.0.   At the 
current
state of freetds there is a bit of basic functionality, that I actually use 
on a
daily basis  (nothing fancy but it makes me a bit more productive).  There is 
a lot
of room to add more developers,  as most of the functions are just stubs.

For what it is worth, I have been able to link in the dblib library with 
sqsh-1.4
and  sybperl-2.09.04 with a bit of success.   In the current release, there is
support for specifying the protocol version for a connection for ctlib.  With 
a
small addition,  dblib can do it as well.   Now I am able to go to MS-SQL 
server and
get a value that is used in a sql call to Sybase all within one perl script 
(from my
Linux box).  This particular ability helps my productivity considerably.

Gregg Jensen


>From Jamison Stepan <jstepan AT uswest.net> Thu Aug 20 12:13:34 1998
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:13:38 -0500
From: Jamison Stepan <jstepan AT uswest.net>
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Just thought I would post my results of testing freetds.
I am going from a RH 5.1 Intel box to a MSSQL 6.5 server.
unitest would had after the connect statement when I altered it to go to
my MSSQL server.

I got sybperl to compile and link, but the scripts would exibit the same
hang.

Jamison

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