FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> 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