FreeTDS Development Group

[Mike Groeneweg <mikeg AT scorpion.murdoch.edu.au>]

Greetings,

Does anybody have any tips on what possibly I am doing wrong (if it is
me at all)?

I was using FreeTDS 0.47 and DBD::Sybase 0.21 to talk to a MS SQL Server
7.0 system. They were talking okay - ie I could information into and out
of the database... but every transaction that I did generated the
message: 'Unknown Property 7'

So, last last week, I was trawling around the 'net again, and saw that
FreeTDS 0.50 was out. I compiled it up - the only flag I set were to
force version 4.2 protocol and the --prefix install directory. I didn't
change DBD::Sybase (version 0.21). My same perl program now cannot
'prepare' the SQL query, issuing an error message "Unclosed quotation
mark before the character string '9002'".

The code fragment from perl was this:

        my $inner_query = "SELECT primary_extension, last_name, first_name, 
                        udf1_recID, udf2_recID, udf17_recID,
                        udf18_recID, udf19_recID, udf20_recID
                FROM subscriber
                WHERE primary_extension <> '$row[0]' AND
                      udf1_recID = '$row[3]' AND
                      udf2_recID = '$row[4]'
                ";

then I do:

        my $sth2 = $dbh->prepare($inner_query);

to debug it, I printed the $inner_query variable to make sure the SQL
looked right, this is it:

                SELECT primary_extension, last_name, first_name,
                        udf1_recID, udf2_recID, udf17_recID,
                        udf18_recID, udf19_recID, udf20_recID
                FROM subscriber
                WHERE primary_extension <> '9002' AND
                      udf1_recID = '611' AND
                      udf2_recID = '1012'

I've got code in before the $inner_query string is set, to ensure that
any "'" (single quote) is quoted again - to comply with MS-SQL 7.0
requirements (I assume same for Sybase).

But as you can see, the $inner_query string - SQL SELECT statement -
looks valid IMHO. What is going on? FreeTDS 0.47 will do it, but with
the 'Unknown Property 7' and FreeTDS 0.50 just baulks completely.

Other details: Perl is version 5.0502, DBD::Sybase is 0.21, running on
an Ultra10, Solaris 7.0 with most of the latest patches.

Any help appreciated. 

Thanks
Mike Groeneweg

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