FreeTDS Development Group

[Jeff Honey <jhoney AT psmanagement.net>]

Remember that two kinds of people are interested in the FreeTDS project:
those who are SUPPORTING database users and the database users themselves.
Your illustration might go completely over the heads of someone who is a
simple administrator. The existing documentation _does_ spell out the
difference between server= and servername=, I just didn't put two and two
together. Maybe a footnote or comment pointing that out would suffice.


§ -----Original Message-----
§ From: Lowden, James K [mailto:LowdenJK AT bernstein.com]
§ Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 16:50
§ To: 'FreeTDS Development Group'
§ Subject: RE: [freetds] unixODBC failing to connect.
§ 
§ 
§ In trying to illustrate how the odbc.ini, freetds.conf, and network
§ interact, I wonder if this query is any help?  Logically, 
§ this is what's
§ going on, and, after all,  we *are* a database project.  
§ 
§ 1> create table #odbc( dsn varchar(20), Servername varchar(20))
§ 2> create table #freetds( servername varchar(20), host varchar(20))
§ 3> create table #network( hostname varchar(20), address varchar(20))
§ 4> go
§ 1> insert #odbc values( 'MyDSN', 'MyServer')
§ 2> insert #freetds values( 'MyServer', 'box.foo.bar')
§ 3> insert #network values( 'box.foo.bar', '10.80.48.54')
§ 4> go
§ 1> select dsn, servername, address
§ 2> from #odbc o join #freetds f on Servername = servername
§ 3> join #network n on host = hostname
§ 4> go
§  dsn                  servername           address
§  -------------------- -------------------- --------------------
§  MyDSN                MyServer             10.80.48.54
§ 
§ (1 row affected)
§ 
§ --jkl
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