Re: ignore --tdsver
"Craig A. Berry" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds |
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On Sep 7, 2011, at 10:30 PM, Mike Slifcak wrote: > I've not used FreeTDS long. And my use has only tried Perl DBD-Sybase and DBD-ODBC. > > Are you suggesting that the layers of configuration available are not sufficient > to access either Sybase or MS SQL Server with library modules built using the same default TDS version? The layers are sufficient, but the question is what the appropriate default is. Currently the default is 5.0. It's been that way for quite awhile. What I think that means is that Sybase and older (pre-2005?) Microsoft servers didn't need any non-default setting. Newer Microsoft servers did (do), but there was never a default setting that worked for them, so every existing set-up that works has already done something to set the TDS version explicitly. You're proposing to remove the option and essentially have a floating default of "the greatest TDS version that the source code supports." Right now that's 7.2. So that would basically reverse the current situation. You could only connect to the latest Microsoft servers by default. Older Microsoft servers and all Sybase servers would need an explicit setting somewhere. Which has the potential to break working environments when someone upgrades. 5.0 may not be a sensible default in this day and age. But I'm not sure there is a different one that makes sense either. > Do you build one FreeTDS binary set for Sybase, then another binary set for MS SQL? I haven't had any Sybase access for some time, so no. One could maintain separate binaries but it wouldn't normally be necessary. ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[email protected] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser