FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

Wow,

That is a odd combo...nsfreetds, had to look that one up.  do other apps
exhibit this problem or just nsfreetds?

Brian

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Ian Harding wrote:

> Well, I have this up and working, with the unlikely combination of NetBSD 
> 1.5, AOLServer with the nsfreetds module, and on the database side, Sybase 
> SQL Anywhere 5.5.05, Open Server Gateway on an NT 4 server.  We will try it 
> on the Novell 5 server tonight.
> 
> The only problem is that I can't get it to return error codes.  The query 
> executes without complaint, with the rows affected being the only clue it 
> did not work.  I know errors are being generated by the database, they are 
> just not making it back to the app.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> 
> Ian A. Harding
> Programmer/Analyst II
> Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department
> (253) 798-3549
> mailto: ianh AT tpchd.org
> 
> >>> camber AT ais.org 07/05/01 02:30PM >>>
> Yes, but what you have to do depends on the version you run.
> 
> Specifically you must run 5.0.03 or higher.  If running version 5.x you
> must run the "OpenServer Gateway" on the Novell server (it comes with 
> SQL Any).  Somewhere after 5.x (version 6.0 i think but definately 
> by version 7) Sybase made TDS support native, so this is not necessary.
> 
> In any event you must use TDS version 5.0, I have been unable to get 4.2
> to work (I don't know if 4.2 is intended to work or not).
> 
> jkl, can we get this Q added to the FAQ?
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Ian Harding wrote:
> 
> > I have been using freetds with AOLServer successfully against MSSQL Server
> > 7.0.  Howerver, I now need to connect to a Sybase SQL Anywhere database
> > and can't seem to make it work.  I am running NetBSD 1.5 and the SQL
> > Anywhere datbase is on a Novell server.  The windows clients that are
> > connecting to the database via odbc are using
> > 
> > "C:\program files\sqlany50\win32\dbclient.exe" envision -x
> > tcpip{host=192.168.100.1}
> > 
> > as a connect string where 'envision' is the name of the database.  
> > 
> > Is it possible to connect to SQL Anywhere using freetds?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Ian
> > 
> 
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