FreeTDS Development Group

["ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>]

> 
> Hi,
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>  
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> I wanted to know about "Login Acknowledgement token" which comes in a
> response to a "Login" packet for TDS(protocol version 8) in 
> case of MS SQL
> Server  2000.
> 
> The question is, in the trace I see Server Name as "Microsoft 
> SQL Server".
> But there are  four extra unknown bytes(all zeroe's)  that 
> come after the
> Server Name.
> 
> I wanted to know how exactly the encoding is done for storing 
> Server Name.
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> Any inputs/references which answer this query would be appreciated.
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> Thanks,
> 
> Shama
> 

I think is some kind of alignment. Yes, it's odd but you will note that
length is 0x16 (22) and string is "Microsoft SQL Server\0\0" (which is
22 characters). If I remember encoding for server version is smothing
like major minor build_high build_low (4 bytes).

freddy77