FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>]

On Thu, 20 May 1999, Peter Haworth wrote:

> Neil Hunter wrote:
> > Has anyone managed to get the DBD for FreeTDS talking from Solaris to SQL 
> > Svr 6.5? I can't get the connect test to complete at all:
> > 
> > t/02connect.........dubious
> >         Test returned status 0 (wstat 10, 0xa)
> > Number found where operator expected at (eval 13) line 1, near ")0"
> >         (Missing operator before 0?)
> > 
> > I've tried printing to stderr inside the tds_db_login - but this doesn't 
> > get printed at all.
> > 
> > I've also built the FreeTDS 0.41 code (I think - not convinced though!) - 
> > but the DBD doesn't seem to reference this... is that right??
> 
> That's the kind of error I get too. I have better luck with DBD::Sybase 
> linked
> against FreeTDS, but while that connects successfully, all rows fetched 
> appear
> to have zero columns, so that's not terribly helpful either.
> 
> This is a known problem though, so hopefully someone with spare tuits and an
> understanding of all the code involved (ie. not me) will figure it out.
> 
> -- 
>       Peter Haworth   pmh AT edison.ioppublishing.com

I'm actually looking into DBD::Sybase real soon, I'm doing some basic
cleanup on stuff though so perhaps in a week or so I'll get it going and
make a new release...It's been a while, I just haven't had the spare time
lately. BTW SybPerl is a viable although not real portable solution.


Brian