FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Teale <steve.teale AT britseyeview.com>]

James,

MS announced termination of DB-LIB back at SS 2000, and now they are
terminating OLE DB also. .NET though has its own facilities that are
easy to use and well documented

Would it make any sense to do a revitalization of DB-LIB - 'SSAPI' - as
a C interface to specifically address SS, stripping away the generality
and consequent complexity of ODBC to make something that was easier to
use for C and C++ programmers.

Presumably MS is committed to TDS in a way that will not readily allow
them to do away with that.

Steve

On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 22:05 -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:41:29 -0500
> Ravi Krishna <rkusenet AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2011/11/28/available-today-preview-release-of-the-sql-server-odbc-driver-for-linux.aspx
> > I hope the above does not make freetds redundant.
> 
> Better than hope: analyze.  List the features of FreeTDS  and of
> Microsoft's ODBC driver that matter to you.  If the union equals the
> intersection, one is redundant, else not.  
> 
> It's certainly news -- and welcome news, at that -- when Microsoft
> offers a Linux driver.  It also validates (part of) what we've
> been doing all these years.  
> 
> --jkl
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