FreeTDS Development Group

[jklowden AT schemamania.org]

On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 10:32:25AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On May 7,  7:02am, freddy77 AT gmail.com (Frediano Ziglio) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: [freetds] notes on new DATE type
> 
> | Working on 7.3 protocol ? Good.
> | 
> | I'll post some patches. DATE is correctly fixed but it's also
> | nullable... some thing like UNIQUE.
> 
> I think it would be nice and mature from Microsoft to tell us what the
> changes in the protocol are as opposed to make us each time reverse
> engineer the changes.

Et voila:

        http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd304523(PROT.13).aspx
        http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd358341(PROT.13).aspx
        
http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/e/6/ae6e4142-aa58-45c6-8dcf-a657e5900cd3/[MS-TDS].pdf
        
Credit where credit is due: I've been relying on MS-TDS.pdf v20080404.  It's
been updated 25 times since then, according to its revision summmary.  

If anyone knows a way for us to be modified automatically of updates to this
document, I'd surely be interested.  

--jkl