FreeTDS Development Group

["Curt Hagenlocher" <curt AT hagenlocher.org>]

James Cameron <cameron AT stl.dec.com> writes:

> The reason this has come up is that we need to create a PHP form that
> does what a closed source Win32 UI does, and we wanted to determine
> what changes are made by the older program.  We had thought to just
> take checksums of everything and test after a transaction.  Are
> there better ways to find out what this mystery program does to
> the database?

Hell, yes.  SQL Profiler can capture exactly the SQL statements
being executed.  I've used it to reverse-engineer the workings of
Rational ClearQuest (not to mention countless man-hours of
debugging my own code).

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Curt Hagenlocher
curt AT hagenlocher.org