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>If you want to get your hands really dirty, here are some big ideas to contemplate.  </P
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>After many years developing <SPAN
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>This wouldn't be a from-scratch effort; most of the code is already written.  What's needed is a more uniform API that better reflects the TDS protocol, and that does <SPAN
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> includes a little stub of a server, but it could be much more useful.  One idea would be to make it a front-end to SQLite, thereby creating for the first time a TDS client &amp; server pair composed entirely of free software.  </P
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