[Mono-list] Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server database support in Mono ADO.NET

[Richard Torkar]

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On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 16:58, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 16:34, Richard Torkar wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 15:59, Daniel Morgan wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > >=20
> > > Currently, ADO.NET in Mono does not support Sybase nor Microsoft SQL =
Server.
> > > Unless, you want to use System.Data.Odbc with unixODBC with FreeTDS o=
n
> > > Linux, System.Data.OleDb with libgda with FreeTDS on Linux, or with t=
he
> > > native ODBC support and MDAC on Windows.  However, this adds a lot of
> > > dependencies, configurations, and another layer for data to have to t=
ravel
> > > degrading performance.
> > >=20
> > > I would like to create a provider for Microsoft SQL Server in
> > > System.Data.SqlClient and for Sybase in Mono.Data.SybaseClient.  It w=
ill use
> > > the native FreeTDS libraries to provide this capability.  In order to=
 use
> > > FreeTDS, we will need to create C# bindings to FreeTDS.
> >=20
> > I have two students planning to port jTDS to C#.
> > Why don't you take that approach instead?
> >=20
> > I talked with Rodrigo about this yesterday.
> >=20
> yes, we talked yesterday. The only thing that worries me is that if
> somebody does the TDS provider, we won't have a job for your students
> :-) Maybe we should be looking for something else for them?
>=20

That's fine with me.
The university I'm at would like to help in the project.

If you can give certain projects that are interesting then I will show
them to the students and (force) trick them into taking such a project
as a thesis ;)


/Richard

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