3.3.5 Message Processing Events and Sequencing Rules

The processing of messages received from a TDS client depends on the message type and the current state of the TDS server. The rest of this section describes the processing and actions to take on them. The message type is determined from the TDS packet type and the token stream inside the TDS packet payload, as described in section 2.2.

The corresponding action is taken when the server is in the following states. In the following processing and actions, aspects that do not apply to both TDS 7.x and TDS 8.0 are explicitly identified in the text.