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  • From: "Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>
  • To: "'TDS Development Group'" <freetds AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: 2000 && 4.2?
  • Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:20:00 -0400


> From: Michael Peppler [mailto:mpeppler AT peppler.org]
> Sent: May 21, 2002 5:44 PM
> >
> > Why would db-lib apps work? I thought it was a TDS issue.
> Possibly having
> > to do with dropping ascii support at the protocol level (in
> favor of UCS-2).
>
> It may have something to do with the initial login packet. The
> non-patched MS-SQL 7.0 server wouldn't accept a CTlib connection, but
> handled DBlib connections OK.

I see. A sort of peephole in the protocol so they can see who's on the
other side.

Has anyone complained to you about DBD::Sybase and MS-SQL 2000? You'd be
showing up at the server as a ct-lib client, even with FreeTDS.

Regards,

--jkl




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