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  • From: Armando Ortiz <armando.ortiz AT cppcorp.com>
  • To: <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Set a warning on null values.
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:48:57 -0800

If you compiled from source, reconfigure it using this:

--with-tdsver=8.0

I don't install pre-compiled packages for this very reason. :)

On Friday 22 January 2010 02:34:35 pm Matt Piskorz wrote:
> Hmmmm.... so comparing your output with mine, I get some interesting
> results. Thank you for pointing me in the tsql -C direction.
> Compile-time settings (established with the "configure" script)
> Version: freetds v0.82 freetds.conf directory:
> /usr/local/etc MS db-lib source compatibility: no Sybase binary
> compatibility: no Thread safety: yes
> iconv library: yes TDS version: 5.0
> iODBC: no unixodbc: no
>
> So... This is my freetds.conf file.[Server] host = server.com
> port = 1433 tds version = 8.0 client charset = UTF-8
>
> Also, the freetds.conf I have been editing is /etc/freetds/freetds.conf.
> But, from the output above, it looks like I should be looking at
> /usr/local/etc. I added the above config for "SERVER" to that file as
> well, but it did not change the output. Clearly, there is something else
> I am missing. The first question I have is if tsql -C reports TDS version
> as 5.0, how do I get this to use the 8.0 version that I specified in the
> freetds.conf file?
>
> > From: armando.ortiz AT cppcorp.com
> > To: mpiskorz AT hotmail.com
> > Subject: Re: [freetds] Set a warning on null values.
> > Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:21:18 -0800
> >
> > I put this in the list as well. Try this:
> >
> > tsql -C
> >
> > You should get output like this:
> >
> > Compile-time settings (established with the "configure" script):
> > Version: freetds v0.64
> > MS db-lib source compatibility: no
> > Sybase binary compatibility: unknown
> > Thread safety: yes
> > iconv library: yes
> > TDS version: 7.0
> > iODBC: no
> > unixodbc: yes
> >
> > On Friday 22 January 2010 07:59:44 am Matt Piskorz wrote:
> > > Lets see....
> > > Ubuntu is 8.04. Whats the easiest way to find the version of FreeTDS?
> > >
> > > > Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:31:05 +0100
> > > > From: freddy77 AT gmail.com
> > > > To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [freetds] Set a warning on null values.
> > > >
> > > > 2010/1/21 Matt Piskorz <mpiskorz AT hotmail.com>:
> > > > > Good day,
> > > > > I pinged the unixODBC list, but I was pointed to the freetds list.
> > > > > I'm connecting to MS Sql Server from Ubuntu using UnixODBC and
> > > > > freetds. I'm having an issue with a query where I am getting back
> > > > > an extra record. Example:
> > > > > Rowset returned from sql client tool:RowID123
> > > > >
> > > > > Rowset returned from isql (unixodbc)RowID1233
> > > > > I receive this warning when I run the query in the ms sql client
> > > > > tool - "Warning: Null value is eliminated by an aggregate or other
> > > > > SET operation."If I run the query as is in unixodbc isql, then I
> > > > > get the 4th row. If I rewrite this query to remove the null, then I
> > > > > receive the correct recordset from the unixodbc isql tool.
> > > > > Question: Is there a setting that I can set in the odbc.ini file
> > > > > (or someplace) that will return an error or a warning, instead of
> > > > > returning the 4th row? I'm an admin of a box, and I don't have full
> > > > > control over the queries that get and people are complaining the
> > > > > result sets are incorrect, when instead the query needs to be
> > > > > edited. If you want to reproduce the error, this is a sample set up
> > > > > that you can use: create table test(c1 int null, c2 int null)
> > > > > insert into test select 1,1 insert into test select 1,2 insert into
> > > > > test select 1,null Now run these from isql on ubuntu. select
> > > > > max(case when c1 = 1 then c2 end) from test --this returns 2
> > > > > rowsselect max(case when c1 = 1 then c2 end) from test where c2 is
> > > > > not null -- this returns 1 row Thanks for taking a look.Matt
> > > >
> > > > I got 1 row using both select you posted.... Ubuntu 9.04 with
> > > > unixODBC and CVS HEAD.... which FreeTDS version are you using ?? I
> > > > remember a similar problem (many many time ago...)
> > > >
> > > > bye
> > > > freddy77
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