FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

Hi,

Actually running DBD::ODBC would *not* require a proxy connection to the 
windows box.  ODBC is simply an API, so there are numerous ways to 
implement it.  Using FreeTDS with DBD::ODBC would be logically the same as 
using DBD::Sybase with the addition of a driver manager on the unix side.  
It appears we are having a couple of minor glitches with the placeholder 
support in DBD::ODBC, but hopefully we will have those resolved soon.

Brian

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 wsheldah AT lexmark.com wrote:

> 
> 
> Ok, thanks for confirming. One reason I'm using freetds is to avoid having 
> to
> ask anyone to do anything on the Windows machine to enable communication, 
> and I
> believe DBD::ODBC would require them to run DBD::Proxy. Since I'm only doing
> lookups in a couple of tables, I'll either handle quoting manually or use
> $dbh->quote(). Thanks,
> 
> Wes
> 
> 
> 
> Brian Bruns <camber%ais.org AT interlock.lexmark.com> on 03/24/2002 09:31:00 AM
> 
> Please respond to "TDS Development Group"
>       <freetds%franklin.oit.unc.edu AT interlock.lexmark.com>
> 
> To:   "TDS Development Group"
>       <freetds%franklin.oit.unc.edu AT interlock.lexmark.com>
> cc:    (bcc: Wesley Sheldahl/Lex/Lexmark)
> Subject:  [freetds] Re: placeholders in TDS 7.0?
> 
> 
> 
> 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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