FreeTDS Development Group

["Geoff Winkless" <geoff AT farmline.com>]

"Steve Langasek" <vorlon AT netexpress.net> writes:
> I ran across FreeTDS yesterday, and was simply ecstatic to find that this
> functionality was available.  Kudos to all the developers -- being able to
> connect to MS SQL databases from Linux is going to come in very handy
here.
> I'm pleasantly surprised that FreeTDS works as well as it does, and I'm
also
> surprised that this library isn't more widely known:  I'd never heard of
it
> before I did a google search, and the consensus from everyone I'd asked
was
> that there wasn't really any direct MS SQL support under Unix yet.  Have
you
> all been really quiet about the project, or am I just overestimating the
> potential popularity of this library? :)

First off I think "the developers" as far as freetds itself is concerned is
basically Brian, so once again hats of to him :) While some of us submit the
occasional patch to get it to do things we actually need Brian runs the show
and is the man who, without whom.... :)

(of course the guys behind the JDBC bit deserve a pat on the back too, but I
don't use that :-)

> Anyways, a quick question -- I see there's a configure option to set the
TDS
> protocol version, and there's also an environment variable to override
this.
> Does this mean that support for all the available TDS versions is compiled
in,
> regardless of the compile-time settings?  It doesn't seem terribly clear
to
> me...

AIUI the compile-time is the default - the environment variable overrides
this.

Geoff