FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Brian Bruns [mailto:camber AT ais.org]
> Sent: February 27, 2003 4:29 PM
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Lowden, James K wrote:
> 
> > I'm not aware of any outstanding Endian issues.  AFAIK, 
> even big endian
> > clients don't need "emulate little endian" anymore.  
> > 
> 
> Only when using 4.2 against 7.0GA -> SP2? I think.  For 7.0 
> and 8.0 it's 
> flipped automatically (so the conf option isn't used, but feature 
> controlled by it certainly is).  Who may still be using this 
> particular configuration is a good question though.

So, it needs to be in freetds.conf only when:

1.  TDS is 4.2.
2.  Client is big endian.
3.  Server is 7.0 without SP2 applied.  

That's a small population, to be sure.  :-)

--jkl


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