FreeTDS Development Group

["Castellano, Nicholas" <Nicholas_Castellano AT acml.com>]

Let's not advertise output parameter support until we really have a handle
on the relevant MS SQL Server issues.  Previously I have claimed that this
is an MS SQL bug, but now I'm not so sure.

Sybase docs say that passing output parameters back to the client is
deprecated, and only works when the relevant bit is flipped on in the
capabilities sent to the server (we're OK with Sybase servers, since we have
that bit set in the capabilities we send).

MS may have simply dropped support for this deprecated feature in SQL Server
7 SP3, or they may now require a capability bit requesting it.  We don't
currently send any capabilities in our TDS7 login packet (I don't know if it
even has a concept analogous to Sybase capabilities.)

So, the jury is still out...it may be our fault, it may be MS's fault, and
in either case this is a deprecated feature that code really shouldn't be
counting on anyway!

Cheers,
--nick

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Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 10:52 AM
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Subject: [freetds] RE: Strange things ...

The next version (which we'll probably call 0.61) will include still more
fixes: output parameters of stored procedures


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