I had heard the FreeTDS had problems with varchars over 256
bytes. I also heard the enoch fixed those problems, but I've
not discussed it with him personally.
I hope the other suggestions posted here work out. Let us know.
I have heard the same although I havent tested all the features... is this version of FreeTDS the .51 or the .52 that you speak of. I heard .52 is suppose to take care of that and some problems with BigEndian but I dont think its stable enough to use full time