FreeTDS Development Group

["Steven J. Backus" <backus AT math.utah.edu>]

> MS SQL 2000 does not support TDS 5.0 which the open client defaults to. With
> free-tds we can connect using TDS 7 .
> 
> For a while MS SQL 7 also did not connect to TDS 5 , but MS issued a patch
> that lets it negotiate to TDS 5 , however SQL 2000 will not do this.

Ah that explains it.  I still think it's lame Sybase doesn't
support the Solaris intel architecture, but with freetds I don't
really care.  You should check it out if you have the resources.
One of our programs runs in 17 minutes on a single processor 1 GHz
Pentium 4 with 512 meg of memory but takes 94 minutes on a four 250
MHz processor Sparc E3000 with 1 gig of memory that cost 10 times
as much as the PC.  Granted the E3000 is busy doing other chores
like running a database, but still.

Steve