FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, James K. Lowden wrote:

> > My only concern with trying the 5.0 protocol is that this chart 
> > http://www.freetds.org/userguide/x545.htm#AEN551
> > says to use the 5.0 protocol for Sybase System 10 or above and we have 
> > Sybase Server Anywhere version 7.0.1.918, though maybe those versions
> > are not apples to apples comparisons.
> 
> Thank you for pointing that out, John.  From where I sit, it's sometimes
> hard to remember (or imagine) how it is "on the outside", for someone
> starting to use FreeTDS for the first time.  IIRC, Sybase SQL Anywhere
> used to be known as Watcom SQL <something>.  Then around 1994 Sybase
> bought it and renamed it.  It's not a System 10 derivative; AFAIK it's a
> completely different codebase.  Hence the different numbering scheme.  
> 
> (That's also why I'm suprised about Brian's 4.2 warning.  I assumed the
> 4.2 crash problem was rooted in the System 10 code.)  
> 
> I'm going to update the UG to mention Sybase SQL Anywhere.  Brian, if
> you're listening, do I have my facts straight?  I should update not only
> the page John refers to, but also the History section.  

ok, didn't realize we were talking sql any here.  SQL Any supports only 
5.0, 4.2 doesn't work, period.  By the time TDS support was added to sql any, 
Sybase had moved on to 5.0.  SQL Any prior to 5.5 can not be used with 
FreeTDS at all.

SQL Any first supported TDS in version 5.5.03 (I think) using the 
OpenServer Gateway (OSG) which is a simple TDS -> Watcom protocol gateway, 
and natively in version 6.0, I believe.

> It so happens I have a copy of Sybase SQL Anywhere here at home.  The 
> copyright in the manual is 1995.  It says the default port is 1498
> (Columbus's second voyage or something, I guess).  Is that still true?  
> 
> Personal note.  My connection to Waterloo stuff goes back to the
> Flintstone era, think punchcard and greenbar.  In college, the intro comp
> sci course used Fortran.  They had just upgraded from WATFOR (WATerloo
> FORtran) to a new version.  What to call the new version?  Why, WATFIVE,
> of course.  My sense of humor never recovered.  

O believe every college course in fortran after the VAX era was taught on 
watfor, I had the joy of taking both types of classes ;-)

> > Thank you both for your help.
> 
> My pleasure.  Good luck with it.  
> 
> --jkl
> 

Brian