FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Ellen Spertus
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 2:35 PM
> 
> I'm building an application that will be talking to Microsoft SQL
> Server and am trying to decide which freetds library to use.  I have a
> working prototype that uses libtds, but the FAQ recommends using a
> client library instead (http://freetds.org/faq.html#Which_API).  When
> considering dblib, I was spooked by the src/dblib/unittests/README
> file, which says that, as of January 1999, t0003.c is broken.   It
> made me wonder if dblib and MS SQL do not, in fact, play well
> together.

Don't be spooked, Ellen.  I think you'll find that t0003.c works fine
these days (I know you will).  

IMO, db-lib is the easiest way to get going if you're starting from
scratch.  It's a matter of opinion, of course.  ct-lib has fewer
functions, but each one has many options.  ODBC is more complicated to
set up, and the extra layers of indirection (driver manager,
generic-ness), make it harder to use.  

We provide db-lib documentation, as do both Microsoft and Sybase,
online.  

HTH.

--jkl

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