FreeTDS Development Group

[Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>]

Tom Samplonius writes:
 > 
 >   Whenever I try to use DBD::Sybase and FreeTDS 0.51 and dynamic SQL
 > (prepare() and execute() methods), I get a warning that the server does
 > not support ? style dynamic SQL.  This is strange, since I'm sure the
 > servers that I'm using support dynamic SQL.  Or perhaps FreeTDS does
 > implement the dynamic SQL functions yet?
 > 
 >   I've been using FreeTDS 0.51 vs. Sybase 11.0.3.3 and MS-SQL 6.5.

There are several issues.

First, dynamic SQL is only supported for TDS version 5 (for Sybase)
and for TDS version ?? (but not 4.2) for MS-SQL.

Second, I don't think that FreeTDS implements the
ct_dynamic()/ct_param()/ct_dyndesc() etc functions that are needed for
this (yet).

Michael
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