FreeTDS Development Group

["Castellano, Nicholas" <Nicholas_Castellano AT acml.com>]

> From: James K. Lowden [mailto:jklowden AT schemamania.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:16 PM
> To: FreeTDS Development Group
> Subject: Re: [freetds] ODBC unit tests "funccall" and "transaction"
> 
> 
> On Thu, 08 Jan 2004, brian AT bruns.com wrote:
> > Were the tests on the 64bit platforms failing only
> > against SQL Server or against both Sybase and MS?
> > Might be an important datapoint.
> 
> Nick told me these tests failed on i386 and Alpha (64-bit) 
> platforms, only against SQL Server 2000.  He hadn't tested 
> SQL Server 7.0 when I talked to him.  I'm pretty sure he told 
> me all was well with TDS 5.0.  
> 
> He's installing a newer unixODBC.  I'm optimistic that will 
> fix turn out to be why Frediano hadn't seen a problem 
> (because he uses a current version).  

I did get to test with a 7.0 server last night, and the tests failed there
as well.  I also tried SQL2000 with TDS4.2 and the tests failed (a few
additional tests failed in this case too; probably expected...)

I hope to get a newer unixODBC installed today and will post more
information then.

Cheers,
--nick
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