FreeTDS v0.40 - Sybase/MS Database Client Libraries | Linux Today

FreeTDS v0.40 – Sybase/MS Database Client Libraries

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 25, 1998
The FreeTDS Team (http://sunsite.unc.edu/freetds) is pleased to announce
version 0.40 of FreeTDS

It can be downloaded from
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/freetds-0.40.tgz

FreeTDS is an open source implementation of the TDS (Tabular DataStream)
database client access protocol and related libraries used by Sybase and
Microsoft. FreeTDS supports versions 4.2, 4.6, and 5.0 of the protocol,
and it supports DB-Lib, CT-Lib, and ODBC libraries.  JDBC is available as
a separate packge from the CVS repository.

New in this release:

Row buffering support for dblib
Preliminary ODBC support
Many bug fixes and cleanup
Working with PHP 3
Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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