FreeTDS Development Group

[Chris Sharman <chris.sharman AT ccagroup.co.uk>]

,freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> Ack.  Don't use libtds directly, it is a support layer for the higher
> level interfaces, and changes from release to release.  Please use
> either dblib, ctlib, or ODBC.  dblib is easiest from a setup &coding
> perspective.  You can look at the unittest programs for examples or
> look on the net, they are plentiful.
>
> Jim et al., let's put a big ass warning in tsql.c not to use libtds, eh?

I've seen mixed opinions here before on whether tsql is 
production-ready, or not.

I run freetds on OpenVMS, and use only tsql & libtds to query a MS SQL db.
Mostly I use a home-grown variant of tsql (that does csv output, like ms 
query analyser), but I also embedded code from there into one or two 
applications that need to do ms sql db queries.

The OpenVMS box doesn't have a database or database client installed on 
it, as such, just its native file system. Installing & running one of 
the higher level interfaces just to use freetds seems like unnecessary work.

It's been running reliably in our production environment for over a year 
now - in fact it's the most reliable part of our fancy new MS solution ;)

Chris




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