FreeTDS Development Group

["Pan, Suixiong" <sxpan AT dcss.com>]

Ah... Oracle must be trying to connect using older ODBC spec.  Thank you so
much for this answer.  This is exactly what I needed.  

FYI, I've now tested FreeeTDS w/ unixODBC on a linux box, and they seem to
talk 2 each other w/o much problem.  Unfortunately, I still need to wait
'till later to test it all with Oracle on the Solaris box.

Thanks again!

Pan

-----Original Message-----
From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Frediano Ziglio
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 1:18 PM
To: FreeTDS Development Group
Subject: RE: [freetds] Missing ODBC functions: SQLDescribeParam, SQLExtend
edFetch

Il giorno lun, 17-01-2005 alle 10:18 -0600, Pan, Suixiong ha scritto:
> So what you are saying is by using either iODBC or unixODBC, it would
> provide these functions, and this should work?  I'll give it a try.  
> 
> Btw, Oracle states that a DM is not required for generic connectivity on
> Unix platforms, just an ODBC driver.  Any thoughts on that?
> 
> Thanks,
> Pan
> 

You can do the same under windows... however DM can do additional
things:
- backward compatibility. It can emulate some function using others. For
example SQLExtendedFetch it's deprecated in ODBC3 and implemented in DM
for compatibility. FreeTDS it's an ODBC3 driver, it can provide
functions for backward compatibility but not required.
- logging. Very useful.
- parameter checking. More safety

freddy77


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