FreeTDS Development Group

[James K. Lowden <jklowden AT speakeasy.org>]

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 23:02:33 +0200, "Sven Köhler" <skoehler AT upb.de> wrote:
> Do i need a freetds.conf when using ODBC?

Yes.  Stay tuned for further developments.  :)

> Any option which applies to a server should be abled to be within the 
> ODBC-DSN.

I don't understand, sorry.  

> I would also recomm, to extend the ODBC-chapter of the manual, because i
> 
> could not find any good/complete list of paramters that i can specifiy 
> in my odbc.ini or DSN-file
> (or am i just to dump to find it?)

Valuable criticism, thank you.  Certainly, you're not expected to "dump to
find it"! <shudder>

For the time being, you might want to refer to the sample files recently
added to cvs:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/freetds/freetds/samples/odbc.ini?rev=1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Your friendly UG editor (me) is ODBC-impaired, which matters only because
I can't update the manual from first-hand experience.  So, the content has
to come from someone else.  

Based on questions we see here, I think you're right, we should reorganize
and expand the ODBC section:

        Chapter 5
                SQSH 
                ...
                ODBC
                  Status summary, link to api_status.txt
                  Role of Driver Manager
                  Overview of installation (generic)
                  The odbc.ini file
                    What it does
                    Where it goes
                    What it looks like (supported options)
                  iODBC
                  unixODBC


I hereby solicit ODBC documentation.  Patches to the sgml would be
wonderful, of course, but plaintext samples sent to the list would be
helpful, too.  

Regards, 

--jkl