Re: Differentiate Sybase from SQL Server

Igor Korot <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Jul 2018 01:11:29 -0500
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Hi,

On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 12:13 AM, John Kendall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Igor,
> Would
>
>   select @@version
>
> work for you?

It probably will, but I'm curious if there is something inside the tds
structure or the statement/connection
structure that will help.

Unless Frediano has some other idea.

Thank you.

> John
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>> On Jul 28, 2018, at 10:04 PM, Igor Korot <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Is there a way to differentiate between Sybase and SQL Server
>> other than by the TDS protocol version?
>>
>> I need an implementation of SQLDescribeCol(), but the information
>> about column is located in a different table for those DBMSes.
>> I can probably check what TDS version is used for a connection,
>> but it is not very reliable way of doing things.
>>
>> Thank you.
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