FreeTDS Development Group

["Ian Struble" <iks AT callwave.com>]

> > Just FYI, you can specify the database at connection time as well:
> >
> >     DBI->connect('dbi:Sybase:server=sql.host.name;database=myData',
$user,
> > $passwd)
>
>   Except that the "server" param is not really a hostname, but the server
> name as specified in the interfaces file.  Lots of people have gotten
> confused about that already.

I actually never user the interfaces file anymore.  I did initially when I
was just getting started but since my code worked on another machine that
didn't have an interfaces file I have neglected the inerfaces file.  Do you
think that this is slowing things down at all?

Ian