It's tabular data stream, not system

It even says so right at the top of page when you click on the TDS link.

But do they really plan to open it? TDS is AFAIK an undocumented protocol so will they/have they documented it? And who cares because it's a protocol that runs on whatever you wish (e.g. TCP) that's used to communicate between MS tools such as the query analyser, the ADO/ODBC/DAO/Linq/whatever bloody thing it is these days etc.

I wouldn't expect TDS to be needing to be opened. I can't see it would be that important as IIRC someone who knew described it as simple.

And on top of that, while I'm here, TDS is just the format for streaming the results of select queries. It's sod all (AFAIK) to do with stored procedures & views (except when these return a result set of course), triggers & all that, and surely *nothing* to do with indexes.

This sounds like marketing bluster to me. Pure bull to make it sound like much more than it is.

My coat please. The one with something amusing on the back.