FreeTDS Development Group

[Craig Spannring <cts AT internetcds.com>]

tetherow AT nol.org writes:

 > 
 > I can't image how you could bring down a database with the wrong
 > endian-ness (not saying it is the case, but that it just baffles me
 > that someone could write a DB server that allows that kind of
 > misbehaviour :)  

<RANT>

Yes, I'm a bit baffled too about how easy it is to crash.  I'm sure
there's some security exploits hidden in those crashes somewhere.  I
came up with 2 or 3 ways to consistently crash SQLServer 6.5 (even
with the latest services packs) while writing the JDBC driver.


 > It still bothers me that sybase/MS didn't use network
 > byte order for sending stuff across the network anyway.

I guess that doesn't bother me as much as the fact that some data is
in network byte order and some data is not.  :-(

</RANT>

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