FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

Ehmmm... I don't know why but this was in my outgoing folder since 2003...
and yesterday my e-mail client decided to send it!

2010/10/4 Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>

> Il sab, 2003-03-22 alle 02:41, Peter Deacon ha scritto:
> > Hi there.
>
> Hi Peter.
>
> > Grabed the latest freetds snapshot yesterday.  In a few hours I managed
> to
> > get ODBC driver working darn near perfect... Thought for sure it would
> > take weeks of hacking before I'd even be able to login let alone do
> > anything useful.
> >
> > We've played with several third party ODBC drivers for MSSQL
> > and Sybase over the years and I've gotta say from what I've seen so far
> > FreeTDS is second only to Merant/Data direct/ whatever their called
> today.
>
> Thanks
>
> > Best of all, there was already a visual studio project in the tarball..
> > all I had to do was compile.. Nothing like being able to step from
> > your application right into the driver (Edit and continue anyone?:)
> >
> > Heres what I've found so far..
> >
> > When we call stored procedures have a habbit of using caps to spell out
> > CALL.  The prepare routine would fail if not all lowercase 'call'.
>
> Fixed in CVS
>
> > For SQLGetDiagField
> > Implemented:
> >       SQL_DIAG_ROW_COUNT
> >       SQL_DIAG_CLASS_ORIGIN
> >       SQL_DIAG_SS_MSGSTATE (The SS functions I set win32 only)
> >       SQL_DIAG_SS_LINE
> >       SQL_DIAG_NATIVE
> >       SQL_DIAG_SQLSTATE
>
> Good!
>
> > numRecord should be decremented after NO_DATA_FOUND check.
>
> Fixed in CVS (with another problem...).
>
> > Misc:
> > Return 'Microsoft SQL Server' if using MSSQL from SQLGetInfo
>
> Fixed in CVS.
>
> > With text datatypes there was an off by one.. It would move the value
> > pointer back one making the first letter garbage and exclude the
> > last.
>
> I didn't understand...
>
> > I've always wondered about where SQLStates come from.  Sybase stores a
> few
> > in their sysmessages table however as far as I can tell they don't exist
> > in the MS sysmessages table.   Cought the bits in freetds where it can
> > fetch sqlstates from the wire..but it never appears to get called.  If
> > sqlstate is not otherwise set added lookup tables for MSSQL and Sybase
> > which map about 150 native errors to SQL States..  Hope this sounds
> > reasonable?
>
> No, simply sql server return sql state itself. Perhaps libtds discard
> this information... Another problem is translation from odbc2 codes to
> odbc3 codes...
>
> > Anyway have a few weird bits left to check into before posting my diff.
>
> Well, post your diff.
>
> > You have no idea how cool this is :)
> >
> > Thanks everyone
> > -Peter
>
>  Frediano Ziglio
>
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