What version of FreeTDS do I have?

Table 3.2. What Version of the TDS Protocol Should I use with Microsoft SQL Server?

What is FreeTDS?

FreeTDS is an open source (or free software if you prefer) programming library, a re-implementation of the Tabular Data Stream protocol. It allows many open source applications such as Perl and PHP (or your own C or C++ program) to connect to Sybase or Microsoft SQL Server.

Where is FreeTDS?

The default location of freetds. conf is determined by the sysconfdir option of configure. If you don’t specify anything, configure’s default sysconfdir is /usr/local/etc. In addition, FreeTDS will look for a file .

Is FreeTDS open source?

Technically speaking, FreeTDS is an open source implementation of the TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol used by these databases for their own clients. It supports many different flavors of the protocol and three APIs to access it. The FreeTDS C libraries are available under the terms of the GNU LGPL license.

Which is the latest version of FreeTDS server?

For the last several years, every version of FreeTDS has been able to communicate with every kind of TDS server. New servers sometimes introduce new protocol features, but the changes are small, and they’re always compatible with old clients. Generally, you should use the latest version of the TDS protocol for your server.

What do you need to know about the FreeTDS library?

Contribute FreeTDS is a set of libraries for Unix and Linux that allows your programs to natively talk to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases. Technically speaking, FreeTDS is an open source implementation of the TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol used by these databases for their own clients.

Is the FreeTDS protocol used by Sybase and Microsoft?

FreeTDS is a free implementation of the TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol that is used by Sybase and Microsoft for their database products. It can communicate with any Sybase or Microsoft SQL Server.

What are some of the uses of FreeTDS?

FreeTDS has many possible uses. It has been used by Unix/Linux webservers to present data stored in SQL Server to the web, to port SQL Server database code from NT to Unix, to import data into SQL Server from a Unix source, and to provide database access on platforms (such as realtime systems) that have no native drivers.

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