Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

freetds - Re: DBD::FreeTDS

freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: FreeTDS Development Group

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: DBD::FreeTDS
  • Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 19:46:59 -0500 (EST)




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
> --
> Michael Peppler -||- Data Migrations Inc.
> mpeppler AT peppler.org -||- http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler
> Int. Sybase User Group -||- http://www.isug.com
> Sybase on Linux mailing list: ase-linux-list AT isug.com
>
> ---
> You are currently subscribed to freetds as: ajb AT alexa.com
> To unsubscribe, forward this message to
> $subst('Email.Unsub')
>
>
>
> ---
> You are currently subscribed to freetds as: camber AT ais.org
> To unsubscribe, forward this message to $subst('Email.Unsub')
>
>





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page