FreeTDS Development Group

[Stefan Bodewig <bodewig AT bost.de>]

Hi Brian,

thanks for your really helpful response.

>>>>> "BB" == Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org> writes:

 BB> This is a feature of TDS 7.0 *only*  [...] I'm not quite sure if
 BB> freetds_jdbc supports 7.0 or not. (I'm the C lib guy)

If I read the code correctly it explicitly set's the TDS version to
4.2 in Tds.java's logon method. So I guess it doesn't support 7.0 -
yet.

 BB> you can issues selects like "select convert(text,largecolumn1)
 BB> from atable" that should also work.

Yes, that did the trick and I will apply it to my software as a first
solution (dropping and rebuilding all tables involved would have been
a hassle).

 BB> If on the other hand (assuming the jdbc driver has no 7.0
 BB> support) you want to add the support, I can give you a quite run
 BB> down of the changes used to patch 7.0 into the C libraries (they
 BB> are not that bad).

Thanks for the offer. I'm not a developer of freetds_jdbc - at least
not yet - and don't know what Craig is working on right now. But if
Craig doesn't object I would really like to jump in. Let's wait for his
feedback please.

Stefan