FreeTDS Development Group

["Mark J. Lilback" <mark AT lilback.com>]

At 7:13 AM -0400 7/12/01, Brian Bruns wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Is this limited to an MS-SQL server? It seems to be the date problem all
> over again.  I'm thinking that we will support a 'emulate little endian'
> mode for big end machines that will be used with TDS 7 and for big end
> machines connecting to broken versions of SQL Server.  Which version is
> the server that exhibits this behaviour?

This is with SQL Server 7, pre SP3. I've conditionalized my code so 
that once a connection is open, I query the server to get what 
version it is("master.dbo.xp_msver ProductVersion"). If it is less 
than 961, I set dbproc->tds_socket->broken_dates to 1, otherwise i 
set it to 0. (Since SP3 fixes the bigendian date problem.)

I'm compiling freetds into a plugin for MacSQL Monitor, a generic 
database tool. Because I need a lot of specific data not provided by 
any of the apis, the plugin is hard-coded for SQL Server only. That's 
all I've tested against, too.

For this patch, it might be possible to detect if it is necessary. 
It's been a while since I was debugging this, but I believe you'll 
get a completely impossible message code if the data isn't swapped 
properly (I think it is negative, but I'd have to check). The test 
could be if bigendian and if (rc < 0).


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