FreeTDS Development Group

[brian AT bruns.com]

Steve: my webmail is showing your messages as empty, so I know you
sent a follow up to this but I can't read it.

The server accepts TDS 4.2/5.0 and 7.0 logins, however beyond that
some of the 7.0 stuff is missing.  TDS 5.0 does work however.

As part of my super-secret mystery project, I'm about to pick up some
of the TDS 7.0 stuff again, but probably not in a time frame conducive
to what you are doing.

Brian

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:41:11 -0400, "James K. Lowden" wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Steve Kirkendall <skirkendall AT dsl-only.net>
wrote:
> > I'm trying to write a simple SQL server so Windows users can run
> Crystal
> > Reports on data in my company's Linux application.  
> 
> Welcome, Steve.  
> 
> > Last week I wrote the SQL interpreter, 
> 
> You may appreciate that's not a sentence I read every day....
> 
> > and now I'm trying to use -ltdssrv to make it a server.
> 
> I wonder if SQLite would be any use? 
>       http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/
> 
> I would be fun to see our server implementation bolted in front of
> something moderately useful.  
> 
> > They crash while trying to read strings for the login packet.  My
> little
> > SQL server dies while reading the client's host_name (the very
first
> > string), while the unittest program fails while reading the
password,
> > after successfully reading the host_name and user_name.  In one
> instance
> > I think unittest.c failed while reading user_name, but I'm not 100%
> sure
> > about that.  Both programs die while trying to free the old value
of
> > that string, when the old value is bogus.
> > 
> > Is this a known problem?  Or is it just me?
> 
> It's almost just you.  The reason you're having trouble searching the
> archives, and why there's no documentation, is that our server
> implementation has seen very little use.  As you surmise, all the
work
> has
> been on the client side.  
> 
> Of course, this leaves the field wide open for any contribution you'd
> like
> to make.  
> 
> Brian wrote what's there, afaik.  I probably runs only TDS 4.2.  If
> you're
> trying something else, that could result in a segfault.  Still, the
> unit
> test should oughta work.  
> 
> > Oh, one other little problem: The tsql program seems to ignore the
> > -pportnumber flag.  I tried using -p1433 to make it use the same
port
> > as MS SQL Server, but it insists on using port 4000.
> 
> Look again at the man page.  The port option is paired with the -H
host
> option.  It doesn't affect the -S servername option.  It could reject
> -p
> -S, I suppose, but instead it just doesn't listen.  
> 
> --jkl
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