FreeTDS Development Group

["Bing Du" <bdu AT iastate.edu>]

>> From: Bing Du
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:17 AM
>>
>> FreeTDS is new to me.
>
> Welcome to the project, Bing.
>

Thanks!  We're looking for open source solutions.  I've tried unixODBC but
Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge for linux/unix to access MS SQL is comercial. 
DataDirect is also on my list.  Unfortunately it's comercial too.  Then I
heard FreeTDS, hope it works out for us :).

>> 1. why tsql shows TDS version as 5.0 rather than 8.0 as freetds.conf
>> shows?
>
> 'tsql -C' shows the compiled-in defaults, the values used if not
> specified in freetds.conf.  (Note that the -C parameter doesn't require
> a server name, which would affect many settings.)
>

Ah, compiled-in defaults, that makes more sense to me now.

[snip...]

Thanks a bunch for the explanation.  I appreciate it.

Bing