FreeTDS Development Group

["Johan Boer" <J.Boer AT babyxl.com>]

I have also tried to use FreeTDS in combination with perl DBD-ODBC but
that dit not work. With version 0.52 none of the queries gave any
result. Though a FreeTDS log file showed that the correct number of rows
are received. With FreeTDS 0.53pre1 all I got was a segmentation fault.
Fortunately if you want to use perl you don't need ODBC, just use
DBD-Sybase in combination with FreeTDS.

Configuring:
Configure a DSN in odbc.ini (part of the driver manager), for example
like "nim" below.

        [nim]
        Driver          = /opt/freetds/lib/libtdsodbc.so.0.0.0
        Description     = NIM Database
        Servername      = sql1
        ServerType      = odbc
        Database        = NIM
        UserName        = xxxxxxxx
        Password        = xxxxxxxx

It seems that FreeTDS uses "Servername" instead of the "Host" entry
present in the example odbc.ini of the iodbc driver manager that I use.
Next add an entry to freetds.conf for the server, see below.

        [sql1]
        host = 192.168.1.1
        port = 1433
        tds version = 7.0

That's all...

Johan Boer

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Norman [mailto:normri AT samc.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 5:48 PM
To: TDS Development Group
Subject: [freetds] RE: is ODBC ready ?


I got the command line tool to test properly with unixODBC and FreeTDS
0.52.  I did not get the make check to work properly with FreeTDS
0.53pre1.  On top of this however, I was not able to get the Perl ODBC
module to work with the FreeTDS driver.
 
SO on the command line, it seemed to connect and work properly, but with
the ODBC in Perl, it did not seem to work.  I am not sure if anyone had
any better experiences, but this is what I have seen so far.
 
Richard Norman

        -----Original Message-----
From: Pieter.Vankeerberghen AT afigp.fgov.be 
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 8:40 AM
To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: [freetds] is ODBC ready ?



        Dear Colleagues, 

        Is the freeTDS driver ready to connect to a ms sql 7 server via
ODBC ? If 
so, how should I configure this ?  The docs are not always clear on
this. 

        Kind regards, 
Pieter 


            
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