tiny_tds 2.1.5 → 3.2.0

data/README.md

@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
 # TinyTDS - Simple and fast FreeTDS bindings for Ruby using DB-Library.
 
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-
 ## About TinyTDS
 
-The TinyTDS gem is meant to serve the extremely common use-case of connecting, querying and iterating over results to Microsoft SQL Server or Sybase databases from Ruby using the FreeTDS's DB-Library API.
+The TinyTDS gem is meant to serve the extremely common use-case of connecting, querying and iterating over results to Microsoft SQL Server from Ruby using the FreeTDS's DB-Library API.
 
-TinyTDS offers automatic casting to Ruby primitives along with proper encoding support. It converts all SQL Server datatypes to native Ruby primitives while supporting :utc or :local time zones for time-like types. To date it is the only Ruby client library that allows client encoding options, defaulting to UTF-8, while connecting to SQL Server. It also  properly encodes all string and binary data. The motivation for TinyTDS is to become the de-facto low level connection mode for the SQL Server Adapter for ActiveRecord.
+TinyTDS offers automatic casting to Ruby primitives along with proper encoding support. It converts all SQL Server datatypes to native Ruby primitives while supporting :utc or :local time zones for time-like types. To date it is the only Ruby client library that allows client encoding options, defaulting to UTF-8, while connecting to SQL Server. It also  properly encodes all string and binary data.
 
 The API is simple and consists of these classes:
 
@@ -21,69 +18,71 @@ The API is simple and consists of these classes:
 
 ## Install
 
-Installing with rubygems should just work. TinyTDS is currently tested on Ruby version 2.0.0 and upward.
-
-```
-$ gem install tiny_tds
-```
+tiny_tds is tested with Ruby v2.7 and upwards.
 
-If you use Windows, we pre-compile TinyTDS with static versions of FreeTDS and supporting libraries.
-If you're using RubyInstaller the binary gem will require that devkit is installed and in your path to operate properly.
+### Windows and Linux (64-bit)
 
-On all other platforms, we will find these dependencies. It is recommended that you install the latest FreeTDS via your method of choice. For example, here is how to install FreeTDS on Ubuntu. You might also need the `build-essential` and possibly the `libc6-dev` packages.
+We precompile tiny_tds with FreeTDS and supporting libraries, which are dynamically linked at runtime. Therefore, you can run:
 
 ```shell
-$ apt-get install wget
-$ apt-get install build-essential
-$ apt-get install libc6-dev
-
-$ wget http://www.freetds.org/files/stable/freetds-1.1.24.tar.gz
-$ tar -xzf freetds-1.1.24.tar.gz
-$ cd freetds-1.1.24
-$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-tdsver=7.3
-$ make
-$ make install
+gem install tiny_tds
 ```
 
-Please read the MiniPortile and/or Windows sections at the end of this file for advanced configuration options past the following:
+It should find the platform-specific gem.
 
-```
---with-freetds-dir=DIR
-  Use the freetds library placed under DIR.
-```
+You can also avoid getting the platform-specific gem if you want to compile FreeTDS and supporting libraries yourself:
 
+```shell
+gem install tiny_tds --platform ruby
+```
 
-## Getting Started
+### Mac
 
-Optionally, Microsoft has done a great job writing some articles on how to get started with SQL Server and Ruby using TinyTDS. Please checkout one of the following posts that match your platform.
+Install FreeTDS via Homebrew:
 
-* [SQL Server on a Mac](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/developer-get-started/ruby/mac)
-* [SQL Server on RHEL](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/developer-get-started/ruby/rhel)
-* [SQL Server on Ubuntu](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/developer-get-started/ruby/ubuntu)
+```shell
+brew install openssl@3 libiconv
+brew install freetds
+```
 
+Then you can install tiny_tds:
 
-## FreeTDS Compatibility & Configuration
+```shell
+gem install tiny_tds
+```
 
-TinyTDS is developed against FreeTDS 0.95, 0.99, and 1.0 current. Our default and recommended is 1.0. We also test with SQL Server 2008, 2014, and Azure. However, usage of TinyTDS with SQL Server 2000 or 2005 should be just fine. Below are a few QA style notes about installing FreeTDS.
+### Everybody else
 
-**NOTE:** Windows users of our pre-compiled native gems need not worry about installing FreeTDS and its dependencies.
+`tiny_tds` will find FreeTDS and other libraries based on your compiler paths. Below you can see an example on how to install FreeTDS on a Debian system.
 
-* **Do I need to install FreeTDS?** Yes! Somehow, someway, you are going to need FreeTDS for TinyTDS to compile against.
+```shell
+$ apt-get install wget
+$ apt-get install build-essential
+$ apt-get install libc6-dev
 
-* **OK, I am installing FreeTDS, how do I configure it?** Contrary to what most people think, you do not need to specially configure FreeTDS in any way for client libraries like TinyTDS to use it. About the only requirement is that you compile it with libiconv for proper encoding support. FreeTDS must also be compiled with OpenSSL (or the like) to use it with Azure. See the "Using TinyTDS with Azure" section below for more info.
+$ wget http://www.freetds.org/files/stable/freetds-1.4.23.tar.gz
+$ tar -xzf freetds-1.4.23.tar.gz
+$ cd freetds-1.4.23
+$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-tdsver=7.4 --disable-odbc
+$ make
+$ make install
+```
 
-* **Do I need to configure `--with-tdsver` equal to anything?** Most likely! Technically you should not have to. This is only a default for clients/configs that do not specify what TDS version they want to use. We are currently having issues with passing down a TDS version with the login bit. Till we get that fixed, if you are not using a freetds.conf or a TDSVER environment variable, then make sure to use 7.1.
+You can also tell `tiny_tds` where to find your FreeTDS installation.
 
-* **But I want to use TDS version 7.2 for SQL Server 2005 and up!** TinyTDS uses TDS version 7.1 (previously named 8.0) and fully supports all the data types supported by FreeTDS, this includes `varchar(max)` and `nvarchar(max)`. Technically compiling and using TDS version 7.2 with FreeTDS is not supported. But this does not mean those data types will not work. I know, it's confusing If you want to learn more, read this thread. http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/freetds/2011q3/027306.html
+```shell
+gem install tiny_tds -- --with-freetds-dir=/opt/freetds
+```
 
-* **I want to configure FreeTDS using `--enable-msdblib` and/or `--enable-sybase-compat` so it works for my database. Cool?** It's a waste of time and totally moot! Client libraries like TinyTDS define their own C structure names where they diverge from Sybase to SQL Server. Technically we use the MSDBLIB structures which does not mean we only work with that database vs Sybase. These configs are just a low level default for C libraries that do not define what they want. So I repeat, you do not NEED to use any of these, nor will they hurt anything since we control what C structure names we use internally!
+## Getting Started
 
+Optionally, Microsoft has done a great job writing [an article](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/ruby/ruby-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-ver16) on how to get started with SQL Server and Ruby using TinyTDS, however, the articles are using outdated versions.
 
 ## Data Types
 
 Our goal is to support every SQL Server data type and covert it to a logical Ruby object. When dates or times are returned, they are instantiated to either `:utc` or `:local` time depending on the query options. Only [datetimeoffset] types are excluded. All strings are associated the to the connection's encoding and all binary data types are associated to Ruby's `ASCII-8BIT/BINARY` encoding.
 
-Below is a list of the data types we support when using the 7.3 TDS protocol version. Using a lower protocol version will result in these types being returned as strings.
+Below is a list of the data types we support when using the 7.4 TDS protocol version. Using a lower protocol version will result in these types being returned as strings.
 
 * [date]
 * [datetime2]
@@ -110,7 +109,7 @@ Creating a new client takes a hash of options. For valid iconv encoding options,
 * :appname - Short string seen in SQL Servers process/activity window.
 * :tds_version - TDS version. Defaults to "7.3".
 * :login_timeout - Seconds to wait for login. Default to 60 seconds.
-* :timeout - Seconds to wait for a response to a SQL command. Default 5 seconds. Prior to 1.0rc5, FreeTDS was unable to set the timeout on a per-client basis, permitting only a global timeout value. This means that if you're using an older version, the timeout values for all clients will be overwritten each time you instantiate a new `TinyTds::Client` object. If you are using 1.0rc5 or later, all clients will have an independent timeout setting as you'd expect. Timeouts caused by network failure will raise a timeout error 1 second after the configured timeout limit is hit (see [#481](https://github.com/rails-sqlserver/tiny_tds/pull/481) for details).
+* :timeout - Seconds to wait for a response to a SQL command. Default 5 seconds. Timeouts caused by network failure will raise a timeout error 1 second after the configured timeout limit is hit (see [#481](https://github.com/rails-sqlserver/tiny_tds/pull/481) for details).
 * :encoding - Any valid iconv value like CP1251 or ISO-8859-1. Default UTF-8.
 * :azure - Pass true to signal that you are connecting to azure.
 * :contained - Pass true to signal that you are connecting with a contained database user.
@@ -392,28 +391,7 @@ Please read our [thread_test.rb](https://github.com/rails-sqlserver/tiny_tds/blo
 
 ## Emoji Support 😍
 
-This is possible using FreeTDS version 0.95 or higher. You must use the `use_utf16` login option or add the following config to your `freetds.conf` in either the global section or a specfic dataserver. If you are on Windows, the default location for your conf file will be in `C:\Sites`.
-
-```ini
-[global]
-  use utf-16 = true
-```
-
-The default is true and since FreeTDS v1.0 would do this as well.
-
-
-## Compiling Gems for Windows
-
-For the convenience of Windows users, TinyTDS ships pre-compiled gems for supported versions of Ruby on Windows. In order to generate these gems, [rake-compiler-dock](https://github.com/rake-compiler/rake-compiler-dock) is used. This project provides several [Docker images](https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/larskanis/) with rvm, cross-compilers and a number of different target versions of Ruby.
-
-Run the following rake task to compile the gems for Windows. This will check the availability of [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) (and boot2docker on Windows or OS-X) and will give some advice for download and installation. When docker is running, it will download the docker image (once-only) and start the build:
-
-```
-$ rake gem:windows
-```
-
-The compiled gems will exist in `./pkg` directory.
-
+This is possible. Since FreeTDS v1.0, utf-16 is enabled by default and supported by tiny_tds. You can toggle it by using `use_utf16` when establishing the connection.
 
 ## Development & Testing
 
@@ -429,27 +407,21 @@ After that, the quickest way to get setup for development is to use [Docker](htt
 $ docker-compose up -d
 ```
 
-This will download our SQL Server for Linux Docker image based from [microsoft/mssql-server-linux/](https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/mssql-server-linux/). Our image already has the `[tinytdstest]` DB and `tinytds` users created. This will also download a [toxiproxy](https://github.com/shopify/toxiproxy) Docker image which we can use to simulate network failures for tests. Basically, it does the following.
+This will download the official SQL Server for Linux Docker image from [Microsoft](https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/mssql-server-linux/). This will also download a [toxiproxy](https://github.com/shopify/toxiproxy) Docker image which we can use to simulate network failures for tests. Basically, it does the following:
 
 ```shell
 $ docker network create main-network
-$ docker pull metaskills/mssql-server-linux-tinytds
-$ docker run -p 1433:1433 -d --name sqlserver --network main-network metaskills/mssql-server-linux-tinytds
+$ docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2017-latest
+$ docker run -p 1433:1433 -d --name sqlserver --network main-network mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2017-latest
 $ docker pull shopify/toxiproxy
 $ docker run -p 8474:8474 -p 1234:1234 -d --name toxiproxy --network main-network shopify/toxiproxy
 ```
 
-If you are using your own database. Make sure to run these SQL commands as SA to get the test database and user installed.
-
-```sql
-CREATE DATABASE [tinytdstest];
-```
+Make sure to run these SQL scripts as SA to get the test database and user installed. If needed, install [sqlcmd as described by Microsoft for your platform](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/sqlcmd/sqlcmd-utility?view=sql-server-ver16&tabs=go%2Clinux&pivots=cs1-bash).
 
-```sql
-CREATE LOGIN [tinytds] WITH PASSWORD = '', CHECK_POLICY = OFF, DEFAULT_DATABASE = [tinytdstest];
-USE [tinytdstest];
-CREATE USER [tinytds] FOR LOGIN [tinytds];
-EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_owner', N'tinytds';
+```shell
+/opt/mssql-tools/bin/sqlcmd -S localhost -U sa -P super01S3cUr3 -i ./test/sql/db-create.sql
+/opt/mssql-tools/bin/sqlcmd -S localhost -U sa -P super01S3cUr3 -i ./test/sql/db-login.sql
 ```
 
 From here you can build and run tests against an installed version of FreeTDS.
@@ -463,21 +435,36 @@ Examples us using enviornment variables to customize the test task.
 
 ```
 $ rake TINYTDS_UNIT_DATASERVER=mydbserver
-$ rake TINYTDS_UNIT_DATASERVER=mydbserver TINYTDS_SCHEMA=sqlserver_2008
+$ rake TINYTDS_UNIT_DATASERVER=mydbserver TINYTDS_SCHEMA=sqlserver_2017
 $ rake TINYTDS_UNIT_HOST=mydb.host.net TINYTDS_SCHEMA=sqlserver_azure
-$ rake TINYTDS_UNIT_HOST=mydb.host.net TINYTDS_UNIT_PORT=5000 TINYTDS_SCHEMA=sybase_ase
 ```
 
-## Docker Builds
+### Code formatting
+
+We are using `standardrb` to format our code. Just run `bundle exec standardrb --fix` to format all Ruby files.
+
+### Compiling Gems for Windows and Linux
+
+> [!WARNING]
+> Compiling the Gems on native Windows currently does not work.
+
+For the convenience, TinyTDS ships pre-compiled gems for supported versions of Ruby on Windows and Linux. In order to generate these gems, [rake-compiler-dock](https://github.com/rake-compiler/rake-compiler-dock) is used.
+
+Run the following rake task to compile the gems. This will check the availability of [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) and will give some advice for download and installation. When docker is running, it will download the docker image (once-only) and start the build:
+
+```shell
+bundle exec rake gem:native
+```
+
+The compiled gems will exist in `./pkg` directory.
 
-If you use a [multi stage](https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-build/) Docker build to assemble your gems in one phase and then copy your app and gems
-into another, lighter, container without build tools you will need to make sure you tell the OS how to find dependencies for TinyTDS.
+If you only need a specific gem for one platform and architecture, run this command:
 
-After you have built and installed FreeTDS it will normally place library files in `/usr/local/lib`. When TinyTDS builds native extensions,
-it [already knows to look here](https://github.com/rails-sqlserver/tiny_tds/blob/master/ext/tiny_tds/extconf.rb#L31) but if you copy your app to a new container that link will be broken.
+```shell
+bundle exec rake gem:native:x64-mingw-ucrt
+```
 
-Set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable `export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}` and run `ldconfig`. If you run `ldd tiny_tds.so` you should not see any broken links. Make
-sure you also copied in the library dependencies from your build container with a command like `COPY --from=builder /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib`.
+All the supported architectures and platforms are listed in the `Rakefile` in the `CrossLibraries` constant.
 
 ## Help & Support
 
@@ -503,4 +490,4 @@ My name is Ken Collins and I currently maintain the SQL Server adapter for Activ
 
 ## License
 
-TinyTDS is Copyright (c) 2010-2015 Ken Collins, <ken@metaskills.net> and Will Bond (Veracross LLC) <wbond@breuer.com>. It is distributed under the MIT license. Windows binaries contain pre-compiled versions of FreeTDS <http://www.freetds.org/> which is licensed under the GNU LGPL license at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.0.html>
+TinyTDS is Copyright (c) 2010-2015 Ken Collins, <ken@metaskills.net> and Will Bond (Veracross LLC) <wbond@breuer.com>. It is distributed under the MIT license. Windows and Linux binaries contain pre-compiled versions of FreeTDS <http://www.freetds.org/> and `libconv` which is licensed under the GNU LGPL license at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.0.html>. They also contain OpenSSL, which is licensed under the OpenSSL license at <https://openssl-library.org/source/license/index.html>.

data/Rakefile

@@ -1,18 +1,24 @@
-# encoding: UTF-8
-require 'rbconfig'
-require 'rake'
-require 'rake/clean'
-require 'rake/extensiontask'
-require_relative './ext/tiny_tds/extconsts'
-
-SPEC = Gem::Specification.load(File.expand_path('../tiny_tds.gemspec', __FILE__))
-GEM_PLATFORM_HOSTS = {
-  'x86-mingw32' => 'i686-w64-mingw32',
-  'x64-mingw32' => 'x86_64-w64-mingw32'
-}
+require "rbconfig"
+require "rake"
+require "rake/clean"
+require "rake/extensiontask"
+
+SPEC = Gem::Specification.load(File.expand_path("../tiny_tds.gemspec", __FILE__))
+
+CrossLibrary = Struct.new :platform, :openssl_config
+CrossLibraries = [
+  ["x64-mingw-ucrt", "mingw64"],
+  ["x64-mingw32", "mingw64"],
+  ["x86_64-linux-gnu", "linux-x86_64"],
+  ["x86_64-linux-musl", "linux-x86_64"],
+  ["aarch64-linux-gnu", "linux-aarch64"],
+  ["aarch64-linux-musl", "linux-aarch64"]
+].map do |platform, openssl_config|
+  CrossLibrary.new platform, openssl_config
+end
 
 # Add our project specific files to clean for a rebuild
-CLEAN.include FileList["{ext,lib}/**/*.{so,#{RbConfig::CONFIG['DLEXT']},o}"],
+CLEAN.include FileList["{ext,lib}/**/*.{so,#{RbConfig::CONFIG["DLEXT"]},o}"],
   FileList["exe/*"]
 
 # Clobber all our temp files and ports files including .install files
@@ -20,34 +26,42 @@ CLEAN.include FileList["{ext,lib}/**/*.{so,#{RbConfig::CONFIG['DLEXT']},o}"],
 CLOBBER.include FileList["tmp/**/*"],
   FileList["ports/**/*"].exclude(%r{^ports/archives})
 
-Dir['tasks/*.rake'].sort.each { |f| load f }
+Dir["tasks/*.rake"].sort.each { |f| load f }
 
-Rake::ExtensionTask.new('tiny_tds', SPEC) do |ext|
-  ext.lib_dir = 'lib/tiny_tds'
+Rake::ExtensionTask.new("tiny_tds", SPEC) do |ext|
+  ext.lib_dir = "lib/tiny_tds"
   ext.cross_compile = true
-  ext.cross_platform = GEM_PLATFORM_HOSTS.keys
+  ext.cross_platform = CrossLibraries.map(&:platform)
 
   # Add dependent DLLs to the cross gems
   ext.cross_compiling do |spec|
     # The fat binary gem doesn't depend on the freetds package, since it bundles the library.
-    spec.metadata.delete('msys2_mingw_dependencies')
-
-    platform_host_map = GEM_PLATFORM_HOSTS
-    gemplat = spec.platform.to_s
-    host = platform_host_map[gemplat]
+    spec.metadata.delete("msys2_mingw_dependencies")
 
-    # We don't need the sources in a fat binary gem
-    spec.files = spec.files.reject { |f| f =~ %r{^ports\/archives/} }
-
-    # Make sure to include the ports binaries and libraries
-    spec.files += FileList["ports/#{host}/**/**/{bin,lib}/*"].exclude do |f|
-      File.directory? f
+    if /mingw/.match?(spec.platform.to_s)
+      spec.files += [
+        "ports/#{spec.platform}/bin/libsybdb-5.dll",
+        "ports/#{spec.platform}/bin/defncopy.exe",
+        "ports/#{spec.platform}/bin/tsql.exe"
+      ]
+    elsif /linux/.match?(spec.platform.to_s)
+      spec.files += [
+        "ports/#{spec.platform}/lib/libsybdb.so.5",
+        "ports/#{spec.platform}/bin/defncopy",
+        "ports/#{spec.platform}/bin/tsql"
+      ]
     end
+  end
 
-    spec.files += Dir.glob('exe/*')
+  ext.cross_config_options += CrossLibraries.map do |xlib|
+    {
+      xlib.platform => [
+        "--with-cross-build=#{xlib.platform}",
+        "--with-openssl-platform=#{xlib.openssl_config}"
+      ]
+    }
   end
 end
 
 task build: [:clean, :compile]
 task default: [:build, :test]
-

data/VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.1.5
+3.2.0

data/docker-compose.yml

@@ -5,18 +5,30 @@ networks:
 
 services:
   mssql:
-    image: metaskills/mssql-server-linux-tinytds:2017-GA
+    image: mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:${MSSQL_VERSION:-2017}-latest
     container_name: sqlserver
+    environment:
+      ACCEPT_EULA: Y
+      MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD: super01S3cUr3
     ports:
       - "1433:1433"
-    networks:
-      - main-network
+    network_mode: "host"
 
   toxiproxy:
     image: shopify/toxiproxy
     container_name: toxiproxy
-    ports:
-      - "8474:8474"
-      - "1234:1234"
-    networks:
-      - main-network
+    command: '/toxiproxy -host=127.0.0.1'
+    network_mode: "host"
+
+  cimgruby:
+    image: "cimg/ruby:${RUBY_VERSION:-2.7}"
+    container_name: cimg_ruby
+    environment:
+      TESTOPTS: '-v'
+      TINYTDS_UNIT_HOST: '127.0.0.1'
+      SA_PASSWORD: super01S3cUr3
+      TOXIPROXY_HOST: '127.0.0.1'
+    command: tail -F anything
+    volumes:
+      - .:/home/circleci/project
+    network_mode: "host"

data/ext/tiny_tds/client.c

@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ static void rb_tinytds_client_free(void *ptr) {
     dbloginfree(cwrap->login);
   if (cwrap->client && !cwrap->closed) {
     dbclose(cwrap->client);
+    cwrap->client = NULL;
     cwrap->closed = 1;
     cwrap->userdata->closed = 1;
   }
@@ -263,6 +264,7 @@ static VALUE rb_tinytds_close(VALUE self) {
   GET_CLIENT_WRAPPER(self);
   if (cwrap->client && !cwrap->closed) {
     dbclose(cwrap->client);
+    cwrap->client = NULL;
     cwrap->closed = 1;
     cwrap->userdata->closed = 1;
   }
@@ -297,8 +299,7 @@ static VALUE rb_tinytds_execute(VALUE self, VALUE sql) {
   REQUIRE_OPEN_CLIENT(cwrap);
   dbcmd(cwrap->client, StringValueCStr(sql));
   if (dbsqlsend(cwrap->client) == FAIL) {
-    rb_warn("TinyTds: dbsqlsend() returned FAIL.\n");
-    return Qfalse;
+    rb_raise(cTinyTdsError, "failed dbsqlsend() function");
   }
   cwrap->userdata->dbsql_sent = 1;
   result = rb_tinytds_new_result_obj(cwrap);
@@ -402,17 +403,15 @@ static VALUE rb_tinytds_connect(VALUE self, VALUE opts) {
       #endif
     }
   }
-  #ifdef DBSETUTF16
-    if (use_utf16 == Qtrue)  { DBSETLUTF16(cwrap->login, 1); }
-    if (use_utf16 == Qfalse) { DBSETLUTF16(cwrap->login, 0); }
-  #else
-    if (use_utf16 == Qtrue || use_utf16 == Qfalse) {
-      rb_warning("TinyTds: Please consider upgrading to FreeTDS 0.99 or higher for better unicode support.\n");
-    }
-  #endif
+  if (use_utf16 == Qtrue)  { DBSETLUTF16(cwrap->login, 1); }
+  if (use_utf16 == Qfalse) { DBSETLUTF16(cwrap->login, 0); }
 
   cwrap->client = dbopen(cwrap->login, StringValueCStr(dataserver));
   if (cwrap->client) {
+    if (dbtds(cwrap->client) < 11) {
+      rb_raise(cTinyTdsError, "connecting with a TDS version older than 7.3!");
+    }
+
     VALUE transposed_encoding, timeout_string;
 
     cwrap->closed = 0;
@@ -433,11 +432,7 @@ static VALUE rb_tinytds_connect(VALUE self, VALUE opts) {
     }
     transposed_encoding = rb_funcall(cTinyTdsClient, intern_transpose_iconv_encoding, 1, charset);
     cwrap->encoding = rb_enc_find(StringValueCStr(transposed_encoding));
-    if (dbtds(cwrap->client) <= 7) {
-      cwrap->identity_insert_sql = "SELECT CAST(@@IDENTITY AS bigint) AS Ident";
-    } else {
-      cwrap->identity_insert_sql = "SELECT CAST(SCOPE_IDENTITY() AS bigint) AS Ident";
-    }
+    cwrap->identity_insert_sql = "SELECT CAST(SCOPE_IDENTITY() AS bigint) AS Ident";
   }
   return self;
 }