Re: Does this replace freetds ?
Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]>
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Honestly I don't understand. One of the first comment was "This was long awaited" !?! Well.. there was our driver and Datalink one, if somebody prefer commercial stuff (there are commercial support even for FreeTDS!). Surely MS driver supports better latest MSSQL versions but for instance does not support MSSQL 2005 or backward. Also the portability is very limited. FreeTDS support any kind of Unix, not just Linux and not just Unix! Currently only RH5/6 64 bit are supported. And also you have to install a modified unixODBC package from tar/gz. Well.. I hope they will provide RPM for final release. utf8 support from MS side is very fine. Good also check for certificate, we should support too. I didn't read about license information. Does somebody try it? Regards Frediano 2011/11/30 Ravi Krishna <[email protected]>: > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > FreeTDS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/freetds