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  • From: "Thompson, Bill D (London)" <ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com>
  • To: "'freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org'" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [freetds] cursor support through TDS
  • Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:59:19 -0000

Nice link, freddy - never seen that before. It may help.
Although we're working on it, I still dont have CVS access...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ZIGLIO Frediano [SMTP:Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafoneomnitel.it]
> Sent: 24 January 2003 13:52
> To: 'freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org'
> Subject: RE: [freetds] cursor support through TDS
>
> >
> > 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/ht
> ml/sqlquerproc.asp
> Bill, have you still problem with CVS access ?
>
> freddy77
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