Ken Collins

My bad, I missed that. I wonder if that is something we can fix at our bindings to FreeTDS. I see we removed at one time the `rb_thread_blocking_region` and used...

Great question. I have no idea but I would assume if they did make this change at the protocol layer, it would be behind some 7.4 flag in TDS similar...

Thanks for opening a ticket for this! Makes it easier to communicate in an open way so others can chime in if interested. Here are some of my initial thoughts...

Rails/ActiveRecord has no need for these and hence this has not moved. That said, I am interested in hearing how someone thinks TinyTDS could do this. Propose an interface, etc.

From FreeTDS's FAQ site. Just posting this for my own info on when I get to this. > Microsoft SQL Server 7 with SP3, and later versions, quietly changed (which...

Wow, this is a damn good question. Can you investigate the TDS/DBLIB spec on this? I would start on the [FreeTDS mailing list](http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/freetds) and go from there. Search for how...

Sadly, I lost all my pointers, I just had an 800 page DBLIB PDF document, a few ruby.h files I plucked from the source and tons of failed googling. Here...

Sure, especially if it strengthens the library in regards to stored procedures and still passing the tests.

BTW, the work done in issue #133 is now in master. It relates to how/if we solve this one.

Never seen this attempted before. Have you tried using FreeTDS' `tsql` utility to debug the connection first?