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  • From: "Frederik Teerlinck" <largowww AT gmail.com>
  • To: "FreeTDS Development Group" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Problem connecting to SQL server on linux
  • Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:08:23 +0200

Well there was a problem with my driver, so I reinstalled the unixodbc
driver and rebuild freeTDS. It helps me a step further, but I'm not there
yet:

tsql -S MYDBNAME -U MYUID -P MYPWD
This works perfect.

However:
isql -v MYDBNAME MYUID MYPWD
This gives me:
[unixODBC]Client unable to establish connection
[ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect

I guess this should work first before my own program will work. However I
have no clue why the isql command doesn't work.
Here's my odbc.ini and odbcinst.ini:

::::::::::::::
odbc.ini
::::::::::::::
[MYDBNAME ]
Driver = TDS
Description = ODBC connection via FreeTDS
Trace = No
Servername = MYDBNAME
Database = MYDBNAME
::::::::::::::
odbcinst.ini
::::::::::::::
[TDS]
Description = FreeTDS
Driver = /usr/lib/odbc/libtdsodbc.so
Setup = /usr/lib/odbc/libtdsS.so
CPTimeout =
CPReuse =
FileUsage = 1
UsageCount = 1


2006/9/26, Frederik Teerlinck <largowww AT gmail.com>:

Ths helps me a bit further. With the function SQLGetDiagRec I get the
information:

FreeTDS: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Specified driver could not be loaded
Specified driver could not be loaded

So there's something wrong with the odbc driver. I'll try to find now
what's wrong with the documentation sources you've mentioned.


2006/9/25, Lowden, James K <james.k.lowden AT alliancebernstein.com>:
>
> > From: Jeff Dahl
> > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:19 PM
> >
> > Frederik Teerlinck wrote:
> > > ret = SQLDriverConnect(connection, NULL, (SQLCHAR *)
> > > "DRIVER=FreeTDS;Address=<IPaddress of the SQL
> > > server>;UID=<login>;PWD=<pwd>;DATABASE=<DBname>;port=<port>;",
> > > SQL_NTS, outConnectionString, 1024, &len, SQL_DRIVER_NOPROMPT);
> > > ....
> > >
> > Did you replace <IPaddress of the SQL server>, <login>, <pwd>,
> > <DBname>, and <port> with the correct values
> >
> (i.e."DRIVER=FreeTDS;Address=my.servers.ip.address;UID=myLogin;PWD=myPas
>
> sword;DATABASE=myDatabaseName;port=myDatabasePort;"
> > )?
>
> The fact that SQLAllocHandle returns SQL_ERROR indicates a problem
> before the connection is even attempted.
>
> I think the function you want is SQLGetDiagRec.
>
> If you have access to a Windows machine, download the latest Microsoft
> Data Access SDK and look at its ODBC documentation. If not, try
> searching for SQLAllocHandle on ibm.com; they have pretty good
> documentation for their DB2 ODBC driver, which conforms to ODBC
> standards, such as they are. In any case, you need some documentation,
> because ODBC is a complicated beast.
>
> If you're flexible about which API to use, I always recommend db-lib as
> the best documented and easiest to use. YMMV, of course.
>
> HTH.
>
> --jkl
>
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