FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

Frank M. Kromann wrote:
> Just checked PHP5.2 sources and there is no references to the TDS
> version used.
> 
> All it displays is:
> 
> MSSQL Support => enabled
> Active Persistent Links => 0
> Active Links => 0
> Library version => FreeTDS
> 
> I think it would be possible to show the default version, but as the
> version can be specified in freetds.conf (per connection) it does not
> make much sense to display it.

Thanks for looking into it Frank.  Now it's a mystery what the OP meant by
"phpinfo() still reports 7.0".  

FWIW, I think it would still be worthwhile for a PHP script to be able to
interrogate the connection to discover the TDS version currently in force.
 Yes, one can set it in freetds.conf, but for a variety of reasons (wrong
directory, wrong dataserver section, etc.) it might not get used.  

Regards, 

--jkl

> > Thomas, Christopher (LLU) wrote:
> > > You are right that I was connecting using 4.2. I
> > > couldn't find the version from the TDSDUMP. But I checked the output
> > > from phpinfo() and it said 7.0, but I guess the freetds.conf file
> > > overrides whatever PHP has selected. After I changed the version
> inside
> > > freetds.conf to 8.0, everything worked perfectly. Funny thing is
> > > phpinfo() still reports 7.0. 
> > 
> > I don't know what PHP is doing.  Using a current snapshot and assuming
> > you're using the mssql extension, you can see in the TDSDUMP log the
> order
> > of db-lib calls.  And PHP could learn the TDS version only from the
> db-lib
> > function dbtds().  Anything else is just guesswork.  (If you're using
> > ODBC, then I don't know.) 
> > 
> > We used to include the TDS version at the top of the log when
> connecting. 
> > I noticed it got dropped some time ago.  That was probably
> > inadvertent, because I don't remember any discussion and can't see any
> > advantage. 
> I'll
> > look into putting it back.  
> > 
> > Glad you posted.  If you were confused, someone else surely will be,
> too. 
> > 
> > 
> > --jkl
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