FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: George Wilson [mailto:gwilson AT vigilanzcorp.com]
> Sent: October 31, 2002 12:59 PM
> 
> Did I understand the documentation correctly? I should compile TDS
> version 4.2 to work with MS Sql Server?

George, 

Welcome to the project.  

I think as of version 0.60, FreeTDS's implementation of TDS 7.0 is at least
as good as for 4.2.  

The --with-tdsver option does not constrain the TDS versions that the binary
will be able to use. It simply sets the default value.  

Regards, 

--jkl

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-freetds-150321 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
> [mailto:bounce-freetds-150321 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu] On Behalf 
> Of ZIGLIO
> Frediano
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:47 AM
> To: TDS Development Group
> Subject: [freetds] RE: new to TDS-- What do I need?
> 
> 
> > 
> > I have an linux application that needs to connect via odbc.
> > My database is
> > on another machine and is ms Sql server 2k running on a 
> win2k box. can
> > someone explain to me what software i need to install to make 
> > this work.
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> > George
> > 
> An odbc driver manager (iODBC or unixODBC, last seem preferred by many
> distro and already packaged) and a odbc driver (FreeTDS provide a odbc
> driver for sql server). 
> Some feature in odbc are not implemented but normal query work (well,
> not only this...).
> 
> freddy77
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