FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Brian Bruns
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 1:16 PM
> 
> Given Microsoft's track record on this (6.5 -> TDS 4.2, 7.0 -> 7.0,
> 2000 -> 8.0) it's not at all surprising that they would bump the
> protocol version.  Indeed the only reason they wouldn't is if they
> made no protocol level changes, which is a bit hard to imagine.
> 
> The best thing is to dig out ethereal or similar tool, and post the
> trace of a 2005 client -> server session so we can take a look at it.

Interesting reading:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlexpress/archive/2004/07/23/192044.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2adbc1a8-ae5c-4
97d-b584-eab6719300cd&displaylang=en

It might be something *extremely* small, you know, depending on what
"downlevel" means.  

Our db-lib masks off the "I'm an ODBC driver bit" in the login packet.
If you delete that line and rebuild, your db-lib connections will
magically gain ODBC treatment.  Then maybe maybe the server won't
complain?  I'd be interested to hear.  

>From what I see in the docs about refactoring the listener service and
combining ODBC and OleDB ("Native Client") and especially this:

"SqlClient Namespace and SQL Native Client: Multiple Active Result Sets
(MARS) 

The SQL Server 2005 Database Engine introduces the ability for multiple
statements to return result sets at the same time on the same
connection. Only one statement at a time could actively return result
sets for each connection, no new statements could be executed until all
of the result sets were retrieved."

it sounds like we'll be faced with TDS 9.0.  

--jkl

> 
> 
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:31:39 -0500, Christos Zoulas
<christos AT zoulas.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is anyone working on this yet? I tried a bulk-copy to a partitioned
table
> > and got:
> > 
> >     Msg 4814, Level 16, State 1
> >     Server 'XXXXX', Line 1
> >     Bulk Copy into a partitioned table is not supported for
downlevel clients.
> > 
> > So we are a downlevel client, do you know where to get docs on how
to
> > become an uplevel client? :-)

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