FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT speakeasy.org>]

Hi Alan!

Looks like everyone was so busy with the election  that no one answered you.  
Is that
the case?

I thought I'd drive the welcome wagon if no one else has knocked on your door 
yet.
(No one appointed an official greeter, that I know of.)  I want you at least 
to know
that there is always room for contribution.

If you're working on something that you don't see any code for yet, you're 
not going
to step on any toes.  I've been following the list for several months, and 
I've never
seen any mention of the dbrpc* functions.  I'd say you have plenty of room to 
stretch
your fingers.  As you say, in your spare time, naturally.

Brian does all the heavy lifting with the C libraries, and it's not my place 
to speak
for him.  But I'd be very surprised if your working code didn't find its way 
into the
main tree pretty readily.

FWIW, I'm signed up to maintain the FAQ and create a user guide (in 
progress), and
have an interest in making the bcp library more complete.  I'm also happy to 
answer
questions to the extent that I can.  You're best off posting to the list, of 
course,
where all the smart people are.  I try to be helpful in the margins where my
experience lies: C++, perl., and SQL.  I've done my time with Ole and COM 
too, but
they don't show up much on this list.

Anyway, make yourself at home and holler if it seems like the thing to do at 
the
time.

Regards,

--jkl


Alan Griggs wrote:

> I was delighted to find this project.  Upon inspection of the source code,
> I can see that the dbrpc* functions are not supported yet.  I know you
> have a lot of stuff to work on, so just for a grin, I took a look at the
> packet format that the OLEDB provider for MSSQL Server uses for stored
> procedure execution.  I have got it pretty much worked out.  I don't know
> if the development team has already done this, if so, then I wasted my
> time.  But if not, I was hoping I could be of some help.
>
> As far as coding, I can do C language fairly well, but it will take me a
> little while to get up to speed on the existing code.
>
> If anyone has any information or questions for me, I would be glad to help
> (in my spare time only.)
>
> FYI, I have a MSSQL 7.0 server, and a GNU/Linux Intel client.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Alan Griggs
>
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