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[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

Hi,
  personally I don't like environment, I prefer stdin as suggested or
kerberos when possible.

About hints you are right but I don't think patch is correct. First a
strndup should be used will all cascading code (mainly free in the
right places!). What happen also if anybody wants to set multiple
hints ?? I looked at code and seems that hint goes directly to insert
bulk statement so it would be possible to set a string like
"TABLOCK,ROWS_PER_BATCH=100" but why checking partially string and
then accept the entire string with any options?

Frediano

2011/4/10 Konrad J Hambrick <konrad AT payplus.com>:
>
> James / Freddy / Bill --
>
> I hope I am not too late ...
>
> I submitted a patch long ago against version 0.64
> to fix those Hints that require info in addition
> to the hint keyword itself( ORDER, ROWS_PER_BATCH
> and KILOBYTES_PER_BATCH ) ...
>
> Anyhow, the fix seems to have gotten lost somewhere ...
>
> See attached patch against src/dblibs/bcp.c:
>
>   src-dblib-bcp.c-diff-u-kjh.patch
>
> I also found it useful (and more secure ps-wise) to
> avoid setting the HostName / UserName / PassWord on
> the commandline.
>
> freebcp.c already looks for a environment varb: FREEBCP
> so I added code to src/apps/freebcp.c to use FREEBCPHOST,
> FREEBCPUSER and FREEBCPPASS from the user's environment
> instead of from the commandline.
>
> See attached src-apps-freebcp.c-diff-u-kjh.patch ...
>
> Thanks for FreeTDS !
>
> -- kjh
>
>
> James K. Lowden wrote, On 04/09/2011 03:33 PM:
>>
>>
>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/stable/release_candidates/freetds-0.91rc1.tgz
>>
>> FreeTDS proudly, and with great relief, announces the first release
>> candidate for its next version, 0.91.  It will supersede the current
>> version, 0.82, released in May 2008.
>>
>> The jump in release numbers represents three years' progress.  We issue
>> releases infrequently to minimize users' administrative overhead.  But
>> the time has truly arrived to raise the flag and tell everyone to
>> upgrade.
>>
>> Please give it a whirl.
>>
>> As a member of this mailing list, your feedback is invaluable both to
>> the developers and to the larger FreeTDS community. (That community
>> very likely numbers in the tens of thousands, btw.)  Any problems you
>> discover with a release candidate is one that can be avoided in the
>> actual release.  This is your chance to make a difference.
>>
>> In particular, we need to know about things we devlopers don't deal with
>> ourselves, i.e.:
>>
>> 1.  Proprietary OSes, big iron and small.
>> 2.  Other language bindings, from DBI to PHP and beyond.
>> 3.  Behavior changes versus 0.82 that necessitate administrative or
>> programming changes.
>>
>> Notable new features, in reverse chronological order:
>>
>> 1.  Full Kerberos and SSPI support for passwordless login to
>> Microsoft SQL Server from Unix and Windows clients.  Includes Keberos
>> delegation option.
>>
>> 2.  Full support for DB-Library under Win32/64 via NMAKE.EXE.
>>
>> 3.  Built-in support for UTF-8.
>>
>> 4.  Support for wide characters in ODBC.
>>
>> 5.  Support for varchar(max) and varbinary(max).
>>
>> 6.  Better thread-safety in ODBC.
>>
>> 7.  Error messages distinguish between connect and login errors.
>>
>> 8.  Bulk-copy functions in CT-Library.
>>
>> 9.  Correct handling of query timeouts and cancellations.
>>
>> Your humble maintainer,
>>
>> --jkl
>>
>>
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