FreeTDS Development Group

["Thompson, Bill D (London)" <ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com>]

Sunjit,

Freetds implements TDS 4.2, TDS 5.0 (sybase only) , TDS 7.0 (MS SQL server
7), and TDS 8.0 (SQL Server 2000). 

The last stable release of Freetds is 0.53, which has a tried and trusted
TDS 7.0 implementation. This should get you around the first of your issues,
but not the second. The GUID issue we have only recently added, and it is
available in the latest snapshot. This snapshot is, however, still
undergoing testing - but feel free to join in!

regards,

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sunjit [SMTP:sunjit AT lycos.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 4:07 PM
> To:   TDS Development Group
> Subject:      [freetds] freetds jdbc driver implementing Tds protocol
> version 7.0
> 
> Hi Folks:
>         I believe the freetds driver which is available for download
> implements Tds protocol version 4.2. I have been testing it with MSSQL
> server version 7 and 2000. I think the recommended protocol version for
> these server versions is 7.0..although the driver which implements
> protocol version 4.2 do work with version 7/2000 ..iam having certain
> issues and maybe having a driver that implements version 7.0 of Tds
> protocol may help. The issues that I face are :
> 1) If column name is > 30 characters long..they get chopped off after 30
> characters.
> 2) Can't display data of type Globally Unique Identifier (GUID)
> 
> Any ideas? 
> -Thanks,
> Sunjit
> 
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