FreeTDS Development Group

[Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT bluewin.ch>]

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 08:25, James K. Lowden wrote:
> On 30 Jul 2003 08:06:59 +0200, Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT bluewin.ch>
> wrote:
> > 
> > You *could* just do sp_help all by itself - or "sp_help sysusers", as
> > the sysusers table is guaranteed to exist in all the databases and all
> > the versions of Sybase and MS-SQL.
> 
> Fair enough.  Can I lean on you for a suggestion, Michael?  
> 
> dbmorecmds() needs a unit test that returns more than one result set,
> consistently.  I'd rather not install a stored procedure, because that
> requires privileges.  I'd like to find a system stored procedure that 1)
> returns more than one result set and 2) returns exactly the same sets for
> all versions from both vendors.  Any suggestions?  

I don't really know - you could of course not run a stored proc, but
instead two queries in one batch (i.e. select from sysusers select from
sysobjects). I also don't have access to MS-SQL servers, and only to ASE
12.5.x right now, so I can't verify that any stored proc is really doing
the same thing on all the versions.

I'll take a little time to look through Sybase's system procs to see if
there is one that I think is unchanged since "forever".

Michael