New subject: RC & SQL Server

4 Sep 2006 · *now() *


      Thomas,
Thank you for getting this into the Trunk. I will start testing as soon
as possible.
On the subject of UTF collation, I will need to look further into this.
SQL Server does not support UTF but uses the UCS-2 standard for Unicode
data instead.
The first change would be to change the data types of all the char,
varchar and text columns to nchar, nvarchar and ntext to allow Unicode -
that's the easy part and we could then leave the collation as it is. I
would then have to look at converting the UTF data to UCS-2 with a new
function.
I'll let you know how when I have more details.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Bruederli [mailto:roundcube@gmail.com] 
Sent: 30 August 2006 18:43
To: WOODS John
Cc: RoundCube Dev
Subject: Re: RC & SQL Server
Hi John,
Thanks for the code, I just added it to the Trunk. Since I don't have a
MSSQL server it's up to you to test it.
One final question: Is it possible to use UTF collation instead of
Latin1 as you suggested in the mssql.initial.sql file? If yes, what's
the exact string for MSSQL?
Regards,
Thomas
WOODS John wrote:
...
Whilst on the subject of different databases some of you may be
interested in a port to MS SQL Server that I have made.
[...]
...
This is a new function that is required to place the *now() *mysql
function* *or* getdate() *mssql* *function in SQL query strings. For
this to work all occurrences of the string "now()" in the project have
to be replaced with a call to this function.
Please let me know whether any of you can make use this port.
John Woods