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RE: Noob to FreeTDS and connectivity to MS SQL 6.5

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>
To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Noob to FreeTDS and connectivity to MS SQL 6.5
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 21:36:26 -0500

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:20:56PM -0400, Andrew Schott wrote:
> Thaks much for the reply!

> I am assuming that there MUST be a tcp socket listening, and that there is
> no way that I can configure FreeTDS to do piping?

Well, there might be a way, but I don't think you would say "configure"
so much as "rewrite"... :)

The named pipe interface is quite hefty, and not something to be
attempted lightly. Indeed, last I checked, one of Microsoft's standard
troubleshooting recommendations was that you NOT use the named pipes
library, since the TCP/IP library is apparently much more stable.

What version of SQL Server are you running? I don't think I've ever seen
a version that was set up for named pipes only..

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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Noob to FreeTDS and connectivity to MS SQL 6.5, Andrew Schott, 10/08/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: Noob to FreeTDS and connectivity to MS SQL 6.5, Lowden, James K, 10/08/2002
- RE: Noob to FreeTDS and connectivity to MS SQL 6.5, Andrew Schott, 10/08/2002
- RE: Noob to FreeTDS and connectivity to MS SQL 6.5, Steve Langasek, 10/08/2002
- RE: Noob to FreeTDS and connectivity to MS SQL 6.5, Andrew Schott, 10/08/2002