FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>]

Il lun, 2004-11-15 alle 17:58, Thompson, Bill D (London) ha scritto:
> Hi All,
> 
> I posted a patch to source forge last week.
> 
> This patch includes a new application program - datacopy - which a
> couple of people have expressed an interest in recently.
> This program allows the user to move a table of data from one server to
> another without the need for bcp-ing the data out and in.
> In so doing, it bypasses the need for intermediate data files, and is
> also faster, as it bypasses the need to convert data to and from
> character format.
> 
> I have used the program extensively to migrate data from Sybase to SQL
> server, and vice versa, but it could have a variety of uses.
> 
> I needed to make a few small changes to db-library to allow this program
> to work. 
> A couple were small and (probably undetected) bugs in existing functions
> - dbcolinfo() primarily - but I also added a new dblibrary function -
> dbtablecolinfo() - to allow me to accurately describe a table without
> resorting to accessing TDS layer data.
> 

I saw. I don't like dbtablecolinfo cause it's not a dblib function but
an extension to ms and sybase libraries. Cannot this function be
implemented using dbcolinfo?

freddy77