Drivers (descendants) for more database types

[Lacak2]

Hi,
There is in Future plans http://www.freepascal.org/future.var :
Improve the database support / Drivers (descendants) for more database types.

I would like to ask which Drivers/Databases are expected to be added ?
I have experimental implemention of TSQLConnection descendant (TMSSQLConnection), which connect to MS SQL Server 7,2000,2005 using native SQL Server DB-Library (ntwdblib.dll)
Please let me know if "project" (or somebody) is interested about it or if I should post feature request in bug tracker ?
Or if you are prefering other connection method to MS SQL Server?

Disadvantages:
- ntwdblib.dll is for Windows, for *nix word there is FreeTDS project, which provides libsybdb.so (which implements db-lib API), but I have  no experience with it, so it is up to somebody else add it.
- ntwdblib.dll seems not to be prefered access method according to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/connectivity.aspx
(ODBC is the primary native data access API for SQL Server)

Ideal solution will be use for all platforms FreeTDS (which will cover also Sybase support), but ATM I am not able compile FreeTDS for Windows to get libdb.dll  (only freetds.dll and libdb.lib)

[felipemdc]

I have experimental implemention of TSQLConnection descendant (TMSSQLConnection), which connect to MS SQL Server 7,2000,2005 using native SQL Server DB-Library (ntwdblib.dll)
Please let me know if "project" (or somebody) is interested about it or if I should post feature request in bug tracker ?

Yes, it would be very good if you could contribute your component to Free Pascal. In this case open a bug tracker item with your new unit attached. In this case it would be a "patch", not a "feature request"

Ideal solution will be use for all platforms FreeTDS (which will cover also Sybase support), but ATM I am not able compile FreeTDS for Windows to get libdb.dll  (only freetds.dll and libdb.lib)

I think the ideal would actually be making it selectable if you want to use FreeTDS or the MS version.

[Lacak2]

Ok, thanks for reply, I will make some improvements and then I post it into bug tracker.

[Lacak2]

http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=17303