FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Nilesh Dhawale
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:24 PM

1) there is a place where I can find all the possible variables that
can be used in the odbc.ini file? Most docs have examples but not an
exhaustive list of variables that can be used.

2) Are these valiable names Database specific? Platform specific?
-----End Original Message-----

http://www.freetds.org/userguide/odbcconnattr.htm

That's our comprehensive list.  Note the final column, "In odbc.ini".  A
"yes" means the attribute may be used in odbc.ini; "no" implies it's
used only in connection strings.  

Each driver invents its odbc.ini attribute names.  There is some overlap
in names by convention, but very little in the ODBC framework that
requires any particular names.  In fact, afaik, there's no requirement
the file even be called "odbc.ini" or have that format.  It's just a
matter of convention.  

--jkl

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