FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

The message is true, placeholders are only supported under TDS 5.0 (and 
even then support is flakey).  For placeholders with TDS 7.0, I'd 
recommend trying out DBD::ODBC which supports a bind column type option.

Brian

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 wsheldah AT lexmark.com wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using freeTDS to access MS SQL Server 2000 from a perl module running 
> on an
> intel linux box, via DBD::Sybase. freeTDS was compiled to use TDS 7.0.
> 
> The problem is when I execute a simple query that has a placeholder, like
> "select name from mytable where id=?" in perl, I get the following error
> message:
>      "Dynamic placeholders only supported under TDS 5.0"
> 
> Are they truly not supported under TDS 7.0, or should the test be changed to
> check for TDS versions less than TDS 5.0 instead of only equal to TDS 5.0? 
> Any
> specific patches available, and if not, would this be safe for me to patch
> directly? Thanks again,
> 
> Wes Sheldahl
> 
> 
> 
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