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  • From: "Bort, Paul" <pbort AT tmwsystems.com>
  • To: "'freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org'" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [freetds] The old MSSQL from Linux...
  • Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:43:52 -0500

I saw something somewhere (FreeTDS release notes? DBD::Sybase?) that
placeholders just don't work. Other than that, it works.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poulson, Shawn [mailto:shawn.poulson AT sap.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:28 PM
> To: 'freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org'
> Subject: RE: [freetds] The old MSSQL from Linux...
>
>
> Thanks for the tips. I got DBD::Sybase 0.91 and it seems to
> be more successful than 0.95. I was able to get simple
> queries to work.
>
> However I can't get placeholders to work. DBI->stderr says I
> need to use TDS 5.0. But I specified tds version = 7.0 in
> freetds.conf. I even tried tdsLevel=CS_TDS_50 in the dbi:
> connection string. Any ideas?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Craig Davison [mailto:cd AT securityfocus.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 4:24 PM
> > To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: Re: [freetds] The old MSSQL from Linux...
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:04:57PM +0100, Poulson, Shawn wrote:
> > > Has anyone had luck with this?
> >
> > Here's how I did it:
> >
> > - Installed FreeTDS 0.60 RPMs (freetds-0.60-1 and
> > freetds-devel-0.60-1)
> >
> > - Edited /etc/freetds/freetds.conf to include a server on my
> > network (for
> > the DBD::Sybase make test). There are examples in that file.
> >
> > - Created symlinks to the freetds include files:
> > cd /usr/include
> > find freetds -name \*.h -exec ln -s {} \;
> >
> > - Downloaded DBD::Sybase 0.91. This is not the latest version
> > but it seems
> > to work very well. (*)
> >
> > - Set SYBASE:
> > export SYBASE=/usr
> >
> > - Built DBD::Sybase, and specified the server I had in my
> > /etc/freetds/freetds.conf as a test server. Note that make
> > test will not
> > succeed 100%, but it will get close (95% or so):
> > perl Makefile.PL
> > make
> > make test
> > make install
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > (*) DBD::Sybase 0.95, the latest, requires some small code
> > changes to work
> > with FreeTDS 0.60. Apparently it will just work when 0.61
> is released.
> >
> > --
> > Craig Davison
> > Symantec Corporation
> > +1 (403) 213-3939 ext. 228
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