FreeTDS Development Group

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

I really can't say what state sybperl is in.  Most of the development and
testing revolve around sqsh/php/dbd::sybase so many things have changed
since the last time I tested with sybperl. 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Dave Blob wrote:

> Really?  How much have you tested it?  The reason I'm surprised is that the
> sybperl tests fail on the following:
> 
>       - a failed query: "select count(*) from systypes where"
>               - My trivial debugging leads me to beleive this is because
> dbsqlexec returns true rather than reading the response packet and queueing
> it
dbsqlexec calls dbresults() which in turn calls
tds_process_result_tokens(), so at the protocol level we should know if it
worked or didn't before dbsqlexec() returns...I'll look into it more.

>       - Message handlers
>               - no debugging yet, but it simply isn't called in the test
again, should work...probably a small bug.

>       - dbpoll
>               - returns succeed, doesn't set reason.
dbpoll is not implemented.

> 
> I would say the first two are critical pieces.  As I noted before, I tried
> using sybperl anyhow, but to no avail - the sql function doesn't work,
> although the separate calls do - I haven't quite tracked that one down yet.
> 
> Anyhow, all this isn't to be critical, I'd love to use this when it's
> working, and am stuck with using DBD::ODBC in the meantime. I just don't
> think it's fair to say it works great, when it's got a few things that are
> undone, and doesn't pass what are some pretty straightforward tests...
Have you tried using DBD::Sybase?

> 
> Dave
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: William.P.McGonigle AT artoo.hitchcock.org
> > [mailto:William.P.McGonigle AT artoo.hitchcock.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:27 PM
> > To: TDS Development Group
> > Subject: [freetds] Re: current CVS version won't connect to MSSQL 7
> > 
> > 
> > --- Brian Bruns wrote:
> > Eh, but isn't network order MSB (big endian) and sparc host 
> > order would be
> > big endian as well, so no conversion would take place...i 
> > think anyway....
> > But agreed, maybe we need htoms and mstoh ? :-)
> > --- end of quote ---
> > 
> > Seems right on both accounts. 
> > 
> > BTW, I'm now using FreeTDS (last week's CVS) 
> > --with-tdsver=4.2 against MSSQL 7 on Solaris 7 and everything 
> > seems to be working perfectly 
> > (apache/mod_perl/Apache::DBI/DBD::Sybase).  The only thing 
> > that suprised me was to find MSSQL errors in the apache error 
> > log, and not in the TDS log.  
> > 
> > Great job, guys.
> > 
> > -Bill
> >