Giving it another go...
Ian Struble
iks at callwave.com
Tue Jan 2 13:23:42 EST 2001
> > Just FYI, you can specify the database at connection time as well:
> >
> > DBI->connect('dbi:Sybase:server=sql.host.name;database=myData',
$user,
> > $passwd)
>
> Except that the "server" param is not really a hostname, but the server
> name as specified in the interfaces file. Lots of people have gotten
> confused about that already.
I actually never user the interfaces file anymore. I did initially when I
was just getting started but since my code worked on another machine that
didn't have an interfaces file I have neglected the inerfaces file. Do you
think that this is slowing things down at all?
Ian
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