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  • From: "Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>
  • To: "FreeTDS Development Group" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [freetds] unixODBC/MS SQL/freetds problem
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:09:25 -0400

> From: Lyons, Andrew Myers
> Sent: June 17, 2004 4:09 PM
>
> I now have a problem when trying to connect using python with
> mxODBC. I don't get any log data when I try this method; here's
> what happens:

If you get no TDSDUMP log output (and it's set for the invoking process, of
course) then FreeTDS isn't getting started. I'd guess it's your connect
string; these things are notoriously hard to get right the first time.

> One side note:
> When I do an isql from the command line, I get the following text
> as part of the log output:
>
> 14:26:44.199938 tds_put_string converting 6 bytes of "SYBASE"
> 14:26:44.199972 tds_put_string wrote 12 bytes
> 14:26:44.200001 tds_put_string wrote 0 bytes
> 14:26:44.200029 tds_put_string converting 10 bytes of "us_english"
...
> Should I be concerned that "sybase" is still showing up there?
> even though it seems to work?

No. There's a whole bunch of fields in the login record, a few are just
informational strings passed to the server to identify the client.

You're connecting with isql, so your config files are fine.

> I greatly appreciate the time you spent to develop and support
> freetds, which I'm sure will be quite useful to me once I figure
> out how it works :-)

You're almost home. Thanks for the kind words.

--jkl

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