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  • From: Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: endian patch and Re: Strange server
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:49:49 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Michael Horowitz wrote:

> Anyway, it seems that you have had a similar problem with the big endian
> issue as me, so I wanted to chyme in with my experience with it. While
> either of the fixes seems to work under specific configurations, I am not
> sure what the final fix should be to make it work under all platforms and
> with all types of SQL Servers both MS and Sybase.
>
> Do you have any other info that might help with this?

What I would like to do, is remove the datetime/money swaps entirely. If
you are using FreeTDS on a big endian box against MS SQL, use emulate
little endian. Anything else works in bits and pieces here and there, but
then breaks with the next service pack. It'll also simplify what is going
on underneath anyway.

Besides, TDS 7.0 is little endian only, and it doesn't appear that MS QA's
big endian machines so it's a crap shoot trying to get it working.

Brian






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