FreeTDS Development Group

[Kevin <root AT zazu.nol.org>]

Gregg Jensen wrote:
> 
> FYI,
> 
> I have compiled the latest version (yesterday's CVS latest) on both Solaris 
> (Sparc) and
> Linux (Intel), and linked it with sqsh-1.4.  I have run a few queries on 
> each in order
> to compare the output.  There were queries that went against MS Sql Svr and 
> queries for
> Sybase.  On Linux, the output (for this purpose) was correct.  The same set 
> of queries
> on Solaris, yielded different results.  For some queries ( simple 
> statements such as
> select count(*), selecting one column etc), the output was correct.  
> Anything
> associated with sp_help or select * or even something that would generate 
> an error. The
> output was either nonexistent or an internal error like:
> DB-LIBRARY error (severity 18):
>    The token datastream length was not correct. This is an internal 
> protocol error.
> 
> would come up.  It didn't matter which database, both produced errors. With 
> the
> versions on each machine being identical, it looks like there is some 
> additional work
> on the Solaris side.   If I get any time today, I will try to look into it, 
> but was
> wondering if there is anyone else that has the capability (machine 
> availability) to
> look into this as well.
        Well, I don't see why I can't do some testing and whatnot for ya...got
the machine to do it on at least, but I only have access to MSSQL....

-- Kevin
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