[freetds] Ms sql backslash in named instance 2005

Frediano Ziglio freddy77 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 13:08:13 EDT 2009


Il giorno ven, 23/10/2009 alle 17.46 +0100, apk at blueyonder.co.uk ha
scritto:
> Hi,
> using freetds version 0.82 on solaris 10. tsql fails to connect to sql server named instances as they contain backslashes. Ie.
> tsql -S'hostname\instancename' -U joe -P bloggs 
> A work around is to remove the backslash in freetds.conf. However, this worked fine in freetds 0.62.4.
> 
> The only error is 
> 'There was a problem connecting to the server'.
> 
> Its quite important that we maintain the exisiting functionality.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this and is there a solution that would avoid using an unstable version? 
> 
> 

Try -H instead of -S

freddy77





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