FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>]

On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Stephan February wrote:

> Hi there
> 
> I have recently joined the list and have seen some people asking for MSSQL 
> ODBC driver implementations. Recent attempts of mine to connect to our 
> in-house MS SQL Server 7.0 (recently upgraded from 6.5) from within Linux, 
> has failed miserably. I have tried both FreeTDS and the OpenClient 
> distributed with Sybase ASE for Linux (this is the glibc one). I have 
> tracked down the problem to following statement on MS's site:"Applications 
> using SQL Server 7.0 versions of the client software use TDS version 7.0."
> 
MS SQL 7.0 will still allow 4.2 clients to connect although some features
would be unavailable much like connecting to sybase servers with 4.2
instead of 5.0.  We've had some reports of success however you'll need the
version from CVS which fixes a couple of bugs that 7.0 tickled.

> the URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/sdkdoc/sql/highprog_1.htm
> 
> Does anyone know where to get hold of Version 7.0 of the TDS spec? How does 
> this list feel about collaborating with the unixODBC  project to meet 
> goals?
>
There are no specs available without NDA for any TDS version that I'm
aware of. (Although Sybase is supposedly going to release them soon for
TDS 5.0). TDS 7.0 support could be added if needed. I'm guessing since
they kept the name 'TDS' this is just a few tweaks to the protocol rather
than a total restructuring, although I'm only guessing.  However, since I
don't have access to either 7.0 servers or clients this is going to be
impossible for me to do.

> Rgrds
> Stephan
> essef AT mweb.co.za
> 

Cheers,

Brian