When querying the information schema on SQL Server 2000, removed
a CAST call that was added in 0.8.1 to help with driver issues,
which apparently is not compatible on 2000.
The CAST remains in place for SQL Server 2005 and greater.
[ticket:2747]
Merge branch 'ticket_2587'
fix test
remove all remaining start/end py2k/py3k blocks