FreeTDS Development Group

["Mark Lontsman" <mark.lontsman AT longbow.com>]

Hell Curt,

Well I dont' really know what the differences between freetds and
sourceforge releases of jdbc driver are. I never really tried sourceforge
one, but now that I've started experiencing problems with freetds one, I
probably will :)

To answer your second question, the problems that I had with freetds driver
on linux is that any time I would try to create a new connection, it would
throw NullPointer Exception. After going through source code of the driver,
I realized that it recognized jdbc version as 1.0 while it expected 2.0, and
it turned out that one of the objects it was trying to use was left as null.
I have jdk1.3 installed on linux, which comes with jdbc2.0, all the paths
are set properly. Just to be safe I also loaded optional jdbc2.0 package
that I got from sun's site and pointed classpath to that.

To make a long story short, I had to recompile a few classes and it finally
worked.

Having said all that, it still doesn't work since it seems to be giving out
the error I mentioned before any time I do database updates.. and without
that, the driver is useless to me.

Sorry if my answer was a bit chaotic, I'm new to freetds myself.

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "ed phillips" <artlore AT sirius.com>
To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 10:14 AM
Subject: [freetds] Re: java.sql.SQLException: Protocol confusion. Got a 0x79
packe


> Curt,
>
> Hi, May I ask what distinguishes your version of the freetds jdbc
> driver,
> the one on sourceforge, and the one at freetds.org?
>
> I'm trying to connect to a remote MSSQL server from Linux and the driver
> is loading but I still can't get in, I'm thinking it is a security model
> problem
> as per FAQ question 6.3. I've sent an email to the admin enquiring as to
> the
> mode employed.
>
> In the meantime, I'm still curious as to the enhancements you may have
> made.
> Neither your homepage nor the sourceforge site seems to have much
> documentation
> as to what those enhancements are.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed
>
>
>
>
> Curt Hagenlocher wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, I am trying to execute a simple update statement:
> > > And get following exception:
> > >
> > > java.sql.SQLException: Protocol confusion.  Got a 0x79 packet
> >
> > Please follow the directions at
> > http://www.freetds.org/basic_jdbc_question.html
> > when describing a problem with the JDBC driver.
> >
> > There are two other versions of this driver available.  One is
> > at http://www.hagenlocher.org/software/freetds_jdbc.zip and
> > the other is on SourceForge at http://www.sf.net/projects/jtds.
> > You might consider trying one or both of these and seeing if
> > it resolves the problem.
> >
> > --
> > Curt Hagenlocher
> > curt AT hagenlocher.org
> >
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