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Sybase ado.net 2.0 provider... on mono

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Jason L. Froebe [TeamSybase]

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Jan 14, 2010, 12:03:27 PM1/14/10
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Hi all,

I'm just wondering what the reasoning is for keeping the sybase ado.net
provider windows only. I would think now that Mono is mature, that
Sybase would release (even if unsupported) a Mono compatible version.

Not trying to raise any ire here.. just curious as to Sybase's reasoning.

Jason

Michael Garza

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Jan 14, 2010, 1:05:47 PM1/14/10
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I would assume this is because it is not a completely managed ADO.NET
driver. The native dlls would have to be built on all the platforms that it
runs on.

Please create a support case and add your name to the list of people that
would like a completely managed ADO.NET driver and maybe Sybase will bump up
the priority.

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Michael Garza

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Jan 14, 2010, 1:24:08 PM1/14/10
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I just realized, this probably only applies to ASE. Looks like it may not
be the case for SQL Anywhere and IQ.

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Jason L. Froebe [TeamSybase]

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Jan 14, 2010, 1:24:01 PM1/14/10
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Michael Garza wrote:
> I would assume this is because it is not a completely managed ADO.NET
> driver. The native dlls would have to be built on all the platforms
> that it runs on.
>
> Please create a support case and add your name to the list of people
> that would like a completely managed ADO.NET driver and maybe Sybase
> will bump up the priority.
>

That would make sense. Do you happen to have the CR # for this?

jason

Michael Garza

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Jan 14, 2010, 1:26:07 PM1/14/10
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Jason L. Froebe [TeamSybase]

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Jan 14, 2010, 1:31:31 PM1/14/10
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Michael Garza wrote:
> I just realized, this probably only applies to ASE. Looks like it may
> not be the case for SQL Anywhere and IQ.
>

three different implementations... head*desk. Thought Sybase would have
learned by now because of Sybase Central to provide a unified method

grr

jason

Sumo

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Jan 14, 2010, 10:51:49 PM1/14/10
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A driver, based on TDS 5.x was developed by the Mono project and
actually worked pretty well with Sybase ASE (we tried it). However,
there were a few serious defects either caused by the driver or
undocumented features of TDS in use by Sybase causing too many people
problems. I think now the Mono project is using the FreeTDS (http://
www.freetds.org/) project to provide connectivity to any RDBMS using
TDS, which includes MS SQL and Sybase ASE (albeit different versions).

http://www.mono-project.com/Sybase

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