FreeTDS Development Group

[ZIGLIO Frediano <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it>]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> can anyone (Brian?, Scott?) enlighten me on cursor support 
> within Sybase/SQL
> Server/TDS ?
> I am investigating a Sybase ct-library application which I am 
> contemplating
> porting to MS SQL
> This application makes heavy use of ct_cursor() API calls, 
> and this function
> is not implemented in FreeTDS.
> 
> I might have a go at adding the code, but I'm unsure if there is an
> equivalent concept in SQL server, and if there is, whether 
> there is a TDS
> protocol in TDS 7.0 to support this functionality.
> From the looks of the MS SQL server online help there is very 
> little mention
> of cursors, leading me to believe that this may be a complete 
> non-starter...
> ...although I can see stuff in the Sybase TDS 5.0 
> specification that appears
> to support client-server operations on cursors, and this 
> seems to tie up
> with the operations in ct-library ct_cursor()
> 
> My conclusion from all this is that the ct_cursor() 
> functionality , and the
> associated TDS message streams, are completely bespoke to 
> Sybase and we are
> not going to be able to implement these for SQL server.
> 
> Any views ?
> 
> TIA,

For Sybase I think TDS5 specification is the good place.
For mssql look this page
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql7/html
/sqlquerproc.asp
Bill, have you still problem with CVS access ?

freddy77

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