FreeTDS Development Group

[Tony Esposito <Tony.Esposito AT region10.org>]

I have queried Sybase about your request (What replaces sp_datatype_info?).  
No word yet ...

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From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Frediano Ziglio
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 3:17 PM
To: FreeTDS Development Group
Subject: Re: [freetds] FreeTDS does not work with Sybase SQL Anywhere 10, 11 
or 12

2012/10/8 Tony Esposito <Tony.Esposito AT region10.org>:
> Hello all,
>                 Not sure everyone got this thread.  If you did, my 
> apologies for the duplicate email.
>
> It appears that the FreeTDS ODBC drivers are converting the SQLGetTypeInfo 
> ODBC call to the Sybase stored procedure sp_datatype_info.
> That's ok when running against Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise but the 
> drivers will fail against Sybase SQL Anywhere because the stored procedure 
> sp_datatype_info has been removed/deprecated.
>
> See trace file from Oracle ODBC gateway below:
>
> Entered hgopoer at 2012/10/02-12:03:44 hgopoer, line 231: got native 
> error 504 and sqlstate 52W09; message follows...
> [FreeTDS][SQL Server]SQL Anywhere Error -265: Procedure 
> 'sp_datatype_info' not found {52W09,NativeErr = 504} Exiting hgopoer, 
> rc=0 at 2012/10/02-12:03:44 hgoulcp, line 1246: calling SQLGetTypeInfo 
> got sqlstate 52W09 Exiting hgoulcp, rc=28500 at 2012/10/02-12:03:44 
> with error ptr FILE:hgoulcp.c LINE:1246 FUNCTION:hgoulcp() 
> ID:GetTypeInfo: varchar
> hostmstr: 0: HOA After hoaulcp
>
>                 Since there seems to be an issue with FreeTDS using an 
> unsupported stored procedure (in Sybase SQL Anywhere), I thought it might 
> be helpful to list those stored procedures no longer available/supported in 
> Sybase SQL Anywhere 12.
>
> Support for all the store procedures below has been removed from Sybase SQL 
> Anywhere 12:
>
> Procedure name
>
> Procedure name
>
....

Thanks for the list.

It seems that the only one we use that they removed is sp_datatype_info. Do 
they say which should replace this store procedure? Or a view or whatever ?? 
This would help a lot.

Regards,
  Frediano
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