[SqueakDBX] MS SQL Server Backend in Windows (working but some problems)

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Stefan Kapusniak
<mlist at yclept.clara.co.uk>wrote:

>
> I worked out what was going on with the MSSQL backend segfaulting on my
> Vista machine when running the tests.  It wasn't as fatal as I thought
> initially, but it's a pretty serious problem if you want to use it in
> production
> code.
>
> It turns out if you put in an incorrect (non-existing) host, instead of
> getting an
> error either when you connect or when you open the connection, everything
> seems to work, but it it then all blows up dramatically as soon as you try
> execute some SQL.
>
> The same happens if you supply a username that doesn't exist, or even get
> your password wrong (ouch!).
>
> I guess I'll be poking around the code a bit to try and see what I can come
> up
> with for that one :)
>
>
Ok. I will take a look as soon as possible. I am a bit complicated this week
(I moved to France).


> I also ran the core tests, and got 2 failures on multi-statements, I assume
> that's
> the known thing that's in the OpenDBX bug tracker?
>
>
Yes, exactly :)


> This is all on Windows Vista, Pharo RC1 (10498), OpenDBX 1.4.4,
> FreeTDS 0.82, SQL Server Express 2008, both OpenDBX and FreeTDS built
> from source with ye olde mingw recommended on the OpenDBX site.
>
>
WOW!!! That's excellent news. Did you have to change something in SqueakDBX
code to make it work? Feel free to commit or discuss.

Cheers,

Mariano


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