FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, ZIGLIO Frediano wrote:

> > 
> > Freddy,
> > 
> > > Coding of numeric (and decimal) in different TDS version is 
> > different. It
> > > seem that TDS 4.2 and 5.0 use always big endian conversion 
> > and TDS7/8 use
> > > always little endian. 
> > > Also MS SQL is limited to 38, Sybase to 77 (128 and 256 bit).
> > > So for Sybase a require data to be 33, not 17 (see tds.h.in).
> > 
> > The sybase manuals I've looked at (11.5 & 12) say numeric and 
> > decimal have
> > 38 significant digits (2 to 17 bytes of storage)....
> > 
> TDS5.0 manual state that TDSNUMERIC may have 77 as precision (1-77)...
> 

You're not looking at the TDS 5.0 manual are you?  The licensing of that 
does not permit disclosure, and source code is disclosure in most places.