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  • From: Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: DBD::Sybase FreeTDS connection problems to MS SQLServer 6.5
  • Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:28:42 -0400 (EDT)




On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Michael Peppler wrote:

> "server" should be a logical database server name, and is looked up in
> the "interfaces" file.
>
> It defaults to "SYBASE" or to the value of $ENV{DSQUERY} (assuming the
> FreeTDS libs have the same behavior as teh Sybase libs in this regard.)
>

Michael,

FreeTDS has an additional worst case senario that it will attempt to use
the host name and port 1433 for TDS 4.2/7.0 or port 4000 for TDS 5.0.
Many MS SQL people use this method, but it requires the libraries are
configured with --with-tdsver=4.2 (or 7.0) in order to work properly.

Brian






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