FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

Bad Advice! Don't use 4.2 as it may stack trace your server if the server 
is 11.9.2 or newer.  This is basically a Sybase bug (it works under 
11.0.3, not sure if 11.5 exhibits this or not), but I don't know whether 
they'd be real keen on fixing it or not.  So, TDS 5.0 is it.

Brian

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Lowden, James K wrote:

> I suspect you are using the wrong version of the TDS protocol.  You should
> be using TDS 5.0, which is the default.  You might want to try falling back
> to 4.2; you can do that by setting the TDSVER environment variable (e.g.,
> "export TDSVER=4.2").  
> 
> Both 4.2 and 5.0 should work with Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere, AFAIK.
> If you have problems with either one (especially of the "unexpected token"
> variety), please set TDSDUMP and post the log file.  Beware that it contains
> your password; you might want to xxx that out.  
> 
> --jkl
> 
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