FreeTDS Development Group

[Igor Korot <ikorot01 AT gmail.com>]

Frediano,

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 1:25 PM Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Il giorno mar 9 giu 2020 alle ore 16:18 Igor Korot <ikorot01 AT gmail.com> ha
> scritto:
>
> > Frediano,
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 7:34 AM Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >     just another updated release candidate.
> > >
> > > Changes since previous release candidate:
> > > - Small update to user guide;
> > > - Fix build for OpenVMS;
> > > - Fix build from git for MacOS.
> > >
> > >
> > > Summary of Changes in release 1.2
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > User visible (not in a particular order):
> > > - Sybase server:
> > >   - All strings are now converted as MSSQL;
> > >   - Support kerberos login;
> > >   - DB-Library: add DBSETNETWORKAUTH, DBSETMUTUALAUTH, DBSETDELEGATION
> > and
> > >     DBSETSERVERPRINCIPAL;
> > >   - CT-Library: add CS_SEC_NETWORKAUTH, CS_SEC_NETWORKAUTH,
> > >     CS_SEC_NETWORKAUTH and CS_SEC_NETWORKAUTH;
> > > - Bulk copies:
> > >   - DB-Library: fix trim of unicode fields;
> > >   - (*) Apply character conversion for Sybase, like MSSQL;
> > >   - (*) Ignore computed columns;
> > >   - (*) Properly support multibyte strings in column names;
> > >   - (*) DB-Library: stop correctly on BCPMAXERRS setting;
> > >   - (*) DB-Library: do not try to convert skipped rows reading file
> > allowing
> > >     for instance to load CVS files;
> > > - (*) CT-Library: added CS_DATABASE property to allows to connect
> > correctly
> > >   to Azure servers;
> > > - (*) Improve support for MS XML columns for both DB-Library and
> > CT-Library;
> > > - (*) Fix some issues with MSSQL server redirection (used for instance 
> > > in
> > >   Azure);
> > > - (*) Change SQL_DESC_OCTET_LENGTH value for wise character columns;
> > > - Better support for SQL_VARIANT:
> > >   - Better column checks;
> > >   - (*) CT-Library: now supported, columns are returned as CS_CHAR_TYPE;
> > > - Some updates to server part:
> > >   - Set correctly initial state;
> > >   - IPv6 support;
> > >   - Fix TDS 7.2 logins;
> > > - Support extended character using domain logins under Unix;
> > > - Improve MARS:
> > >   - Less memory copies;
> > >   - (*) Remove possible deadlock;
> > >   - Handle wrapping sequence/window numbers;
> > >   - Make sure we sent the wanted packet;
> > > - (*) Support UTF-16 surrogate pairs in odbc_wide2utf and
> > > odbc_set_string_flag
> > >   fixing some character encoding support;
> > > - (*) Fix multiple queries, used by ODBC to optimize data load;
> > > - (*) Improve emulated parameter queries, fixing minor issues and
> > reducing
> > >   memory usage;
> > > - Support DBVERSION_UNKNOWN in dbsetlversion (will use automatic
> > detection);
> > > - CT-Library: define CS_MIN_SYBTYPE and CS_MAX_SYBTYPE;
> > > - (*) CT-Library: fix cs_will_convert accepting library constants, not
> > > libTDS.
> > >
> > > (*) Feature backported in stable 1.1 branch.
> > >
> > > Implementation:
> > > - User guide converted to XML;
> > > - Always use little endian on network level, simpler and faster;
> > > - Converted some files to markdown;
> > > - Optimize bytes endianess conversion;
> > > - Made character lookup faster making character conversion quicker;
> > > - Optimize data padding in CT-Library;
> > > - Fix some build dependencies causing some files to not be properly
> > >   recompiled during development;
> > > - Add "freeze" support allowing to pause sending in order to simplify
> > >   lengths computations sending data.
> >
> > Is there a plan to implement the missing ODBC function?
> > There is only one left...
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Hi,
>    I suppose you refer to SQLDescribeParam.

Yes, I am. ;-)

>
> Currently no plan but using new MSSQL and store procedure suggested should
> not be that hard.
>
> Surely not for 1.2 (maybe 1.2.1 ;-) )

I hope so.
Because I need it for both Sybase and MS SQL. ;-)

Could you please add it to your TO DO?

Thank you.

>
> Regards,
>   Frediano
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