FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Adrian Blakey wrote:

> Talk about getting the right people's attention very fast :-)
> 
> I'll send some nice errors in a separate email. I also do not seem to be
> getting values back from stored procedures that have OUTPUT params -- but
> that might be pilot error.
> 
Eh, that could very well be a problem.  (I've never tested that!). I'll
check it out.

Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-freetds-96490 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
> [mailto:bounce-freetds-96490 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu]On Behalf Of Michael
> Peppler
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 3:13 PM
> To: TDS Development Group
> Subject: [freetds] Re: DBD::FreeTDS
> 
> 
> Adrian Blakey writes:
>  > Firstly, FreeTDS is a godsend -- thank you.
>  >
>  > I am testing TDS .5 on RH Linux against a MS SS Ver 7.0.
>  >
>  > I got and tried to make DBD::FreeTDS 0.02, but it does not seem to be
>  > maintained judging from the compile errors.
> 
> You are correct. I actually think that it should be removed from
> CPAN.
> 
>  >
>  > So I have been testing with DBD::Sybase, built using the FreeTDS libs.
>  >
>  > Things mostly work, however error handling and reporting is not up to the
>  > same level as if DBD::Sybase were linked with the Sybase libs.
> 
> I'd love to get some specifics on this.
> 
>  > So I wonder if there would be any point in forking the DBD::Sybase
> codeline
>  > and doing a better job of providing a DBD::FreeTDS?
> 
> I'm not convinced that DBD::Sybase can't be made to behave correctly
> with both implementations, but I'm open to suggestions. In any case
> the DBD::Sybase code isn't all that complicated :-)
> 
>  >
>  > This makes me wonder about about impedance matches between the libs,
>  > protocol and server.
>  >
>  > Sybase considers ctLib its annointed interface to TDS 5.0 and Adaptive
>  > Server Enterprise. And they probably do not want to help out MS by
> extending
>  > ctLib.
>  >
>  > Microsoft has no ctLib implementation and is interested in furthering
> dbLib
>  > as the interface to TDS 7.0 and Sql Server.
> 
> Doesn't Microsoft push ODBC over DBlibrary?
> 
>  > FreeTDS exports TDS 7.0 functionality through the reimplemented FreeTDS
>  > ctLib -- there is no dblib (rightly so). Therefore, are there ctLib
>  > functions which either behave differently or not at all when directed at
> a
>  > MS database? So will it be necessary to implement some ctLib functions
> that
>  > are not part of the Sybase "standard" library to support MS?
> 
> I guess Brian and/or others who are using the TDS 7 stuff will have to
> step in here...
> 
> Michael
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