FreeTDS Development Group

[bflood AT tethermedia.com]

James,

Thanks. The problem was in the application. I was setting the ColumnSize
in the SQLBindParameter call to 0 as oppose to the proper length. Once I
set it properly it all worked. The same code worked on windows so I guess
windows treats it differently.

Anyway thanks for the pointer to the rpc.c unittest. That was a big help
in helping me track down my problem.

Brendan

>> 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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