FreeTDS Development Group

["Devin Smith" <paradox AT tstonramp.com>]

Some news on the FreeTDS under Win32,

If you are using Microsoft Visual C++ or Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft
would recommend that you use ADO to connect to SQL Server. If you are using
any other compiler (cygwin, mingw, Borland C++, LCC, etc) you can use ODBC.
ODBC, according to Microsoft is a "Open C API designed to access data in SQL
databases. The SQL Server ODBC driver is a native, high-performance driver
that directly accesses the SQL Server TDS protocol." So Microsoft's SQL ODBC
driver is already communicating using TDS!

This page on MSDN discusses what TDS versions work with Microsoft SQL Server
using ODBC:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/bldgapps/ba
_highprog_56pc.asp

If you download the latest ODBC driver from http://www.microsoft.com/data/
and you are connecting to SQL Server 2000 your ODBC application will be
using TDS version 8.0.

Hope this helps,

Devin.



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> > I wonder if this project will have a win32 build in any near future?
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