FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 17:21:48 -0500 (EST), Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>
wrote:
> 
> To say MS SQL ever supported 5.0 is a bit misguided I'm afraid.  The 
> extent of support was basically, it would accept a TDS 5.0 login packet 
> and then tell the client to fall back to 4.2.  
> 
> You seek something like this:
> 
> +---------------------------------------------------------------+
> |     | MS SQL       |     Sybase ASE         |    Sybase ASA   |
> +---------------------------------------------------------------+
> |ver  |6.5 |7.0 |2000| <10.x     | >11.0      |<5.5.03|5.5*|>6.0|
> +-----+----+----+----+-----------+------------+-------+----+----+
> | 4.2 | X  | X  |  X |    X      |      X     |       |    |    |
> | 5.0 |    |    |    |           |      X     |       | X  | X  |
> | 7.0 |    | X  |  X |           |            |       |    |    |
> | 8.0 |    |    |  X |           |            |       |    |    |
> +-----+----+----+----+-----------+------------+-------+----+----+
> 
> * Sybase ASA 5.5 requires 5.5.03 or better with the OpenServer Gateway 
> (OSG).

Nicely done.  As an interim measure, I stuck your table in
doc/getting_started.txt.  Thanks, Brian!

--jkl