FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

The getting_started doc was really intended towards developers, not users.  
I guess a README in the doc directory should state what each file is.

Actually the first sentence says that pretty plainly:

"This document is intended for people who want to help on the FreeTDS 
project and/or are interested in how the code works."

Not sure were the confusion comes in.

Also, I think I would added a second note (**) next to MS SQL with 
something like this:

** It is possible under some versions of MS SQL to send a TDS 5.0 login 
packet which will cause the server to negotiate a 4.2 connection.  Support 
for this is spotty at best and should be avoided.

Brian

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, James K. Lowden wrote:

> 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