FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <james.k.lowden AT alliancebernstein.com>]

> From: bflood AT tethermedia.com
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:04 PM
> 
> Where can I get the 0.63 tgz. The website only seems to have stable
> and latest snapshot.

I'll tell you where you can find 0.63, but first want to advise you.  I
disagree that 0.64 cannot send parameters to stored procedures.  Among
other things, FreeTDS's ODBC driver is used with DBD::ODBC and
OpenOffice.org.  If varchar parameters were really a problem, we'd be
very concerned.  

And if you *do* have a problem, you're unlikely to get help with 0.63
from the developers at this point. 

Please look in src/odbc/unittests and see samples/odbc_rpc.pl.  If
you're sure you're coding your application correctly, please provide as
small a test case as you can, perhaps by modifiying one of the
unittests.  

I just finished writing src/odbc/unittests/rpc.c.  It's only in current
CVS; you can find it in any current snapshot.  If you simply build the
snapshot (and don't install it), then run "make check" in
src/odbc/unittests, then try "ldd rpc", I think you'll see that it's
linked to your *installed* libraries.  If so, I would think that would
be a good harness for you.  I tested it with 0.64 and it worked as of a
few days ago.  

(I actually think the unit tests should be statically linked to the
build tree, but in this case what I consider a bug could be more of a
feature.)  

Now I'll answer your question.  On http://www.freetds.org/software.html
(the software link on the main page) you'll see "Ibiblio.org   Main
distribution site".  Click there and go to the "old" directory.  It's a
positive gold mine of obsolete code.  

http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/

Regards, 

--jkl


> > bflood AT tethermedia.com wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am new to freetds. I just downloaded stable version (0.64)
> >> yesterday and have a simple ODBC app that I am trying to get
> >> working on linux (connecting to SQL Server on a windows box).
> >> I have a stored proc that takes a varchar (basically a string
> >> of up to 10 chars). However when I execute it no character data
> >> gets sent across the wire. If I change the proc to take an
> >> INTEGER then it works (and I see the parm value in the TDS
> >> stream).
> >>
> >
> > Try version 0.63 I had the same problem with 0.64, going back to
> > 0.63 solved the problem.  Perhaps also read this:
> > http://kb.vankoperen.nl/freetds-problems.html

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