FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

2015-11-15 20:14 GMT+00:00 Ken Collins <ken AT metaskills.net>:
> I am in the process of upgrading the Ruby C extensions to FreeTDS from 0.91 
> to 0.95.
>
> The primary goal is to also support using TDSVER 7.3 and the newly 
> supported 2008 data types.
>
> Is this possible to use these new types in 0.95 when many of the types are 
> not defined in sybdb.h? For example here is a diff of that file when 
> comparing 0.95 to master. 
> https://gist.github.com/metaskills/4c9900c3d1078e5c4763
>
>
> For example, I can see that dbcoltype() is returning integers that match 
> these below. I can even see the binary data, but I am unsure how what API 
> functions I need to use this data. So far dbdatecrack() is not working. Any 
> recommendations?
>
> SYBMSDATE = 40
>
> SYBMSTIME = 41
>
> SYBMSDATETIME2 = 42
>
> SYBMSDATETIMEOFFSET = 43
>
>

How does it sound this patch (as a start)

https://github.com/FreeTDS/freetds/commit/a35fe7e4f98034f255c9ca77eab8b9891dfac661

Frediano