FreeTDS Development Group

[Mark Schaal <mark AT champ.tstonramp.com>]

> 
> I've got a SQL 7.0 Desktop db server on an NT box.  When accessing this db
> thorugh PHP (compiled with sybase support pointing at the freetds
> libraries), if I include a date field in the query, my PHP returns bad data.
> Also, on a Sun box accessing the same database with the Sybase CT libraries,
> we are getting strange date returns.  Dates that should be one day apart in
> 1996, are showing up as 25 Jan 1900 8:50 and 25 Jan 1900 8:53, etc.
> 
> We have SQL 6.5 databases that work fine on the Sun box.  The fact that I've
> seen this with two different libraries makes me wonder if SQL 7.0 is broken
> wrt the sybase protocol when it comes to dates.
> 
> Has anyone had dates work properly with SQL 7.0?
> 
> Tim Wasson
> Koch Industries
> Wichita KS USA


I noticed there is a fix in the code, but I think it parses the
TDS_LOGIN_ACK_TOKEN incorrectly.  Try the following patch, i.e.
move the "tds_get_n(tds, NULL, len-4);" call down two lines.
Let us know if it works.  (I've got to find time to start testing
of this stuff.)


*** token.c.orig        Thu Jun 22 15:00:49 2000
--- token.c     Thu Jun 22 15:06:20 2000
***************
*** 170,178 ****
                        case TDS_LOGIN_ACK_TOKEN:
                                len = tds_get_smallint(tds);
                                ack = tds_get_byte(tds);
-                               tds_get_n(tds, NULL, len-4);
                                major_ver = tds_get_byte(tds);
                                minor_ver = tds_get_byte(tds);
                                tds_get_byte(tds);
  #ifdef HW_BIG_ENDIAN
                                if (major_ver==7) {
--- 170,178 ----
                        case TDS_LOGIN_ACK_TOKEN:
                                len = tds_get_smallint(tds);
                                ack = tds_get_byte(tds);
                                major_ver = tds_get_byte(tds);
                                minor_ver = tds_get_byte(tds);
+                               tds_get_n(tds, NULL, len-4);
                                tds_get_byte(tds);
  #ifdef HW_BIG_ENDIAN
                                if (major_ver==7) {

Mark
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