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From:
[email protected] (Craig Spannring)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules
Subject: ANNOUNCE: DBD-FreeTDS-0.01 for Sybase and MS SQLServer
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Date: 24 Feb 1999 16:49:49 GMT
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I am pleased to announce a sneak peek of a DBD module for Microsoft
SQLServer and Sybase. It is in the very early stages of development
and many parts of it are not implemented yet.
The main advantage of this driver is that it directly speaks the raw
TDS protocol and does not need any third party libraries. For more
information about TDS see the FreeTDS web page at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/freetds/
The current source code may be obtained via anonymous ftp at
ftp://freetds.internetcds.com/pub/freetds_dbd/
It will also be available on CPAN within a few days
Status as of February 17, 1999-
* $dbh->login, $dbh->do are implemented.
* $dbh->prepare is partially implemented. (Placeholders are not
implemented yet.)
* $dbh->{} is implemented for setting some attributes, but not for
fetching them.
* $sth->execute is implemented and can handle multiple result sets
and COMPUTE columns.
* $sth->fetchrow, $sth->fetch_hashref are implemented for most of the
server datatypes.
* $sth->finish is implemented.
* $sth->{} will fetch the attributes 'NAME', 'NUM_OF_FIELDS',
and 'more_results'. ('more_results' is for handling multiple
result sets returned from a single query.)
