FreeTDS Development Group

[Bill Tutt <rassilon AT list.org>]

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Brian Bruns wrote:

> That is referring to service pack 1. MS screwed up the big endian stuff in
> the GA of SQL 7.0. Apparently they also broke TDS 5.0, but I believe if
> you set the version to 4.2 before connecting things will work good without
> the patch.  

The big endian fixes for SQL 7 didn't make it into SP1, only the TDS 5.0
login packet handling fix made it, IIRC. There still isn't a QFE for the
big endian problems atm either, but as Brian noted, just configure the
code to use TDS 4.2 and life should be happier. (unless your on a big
endian box...)

FYI,
Bill