FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Gene Dymarskiy
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 10:49 AM
> 
> > The correct server name can be obtained from the odbc.ini 
> > file by specifying the keys "server"' and "address". 
> > "address" is used to determine the host name/ip address of 
> > the database server and "server" is used as the name sent off 
> > with the login packet.
> 
> I can confirm that this works. Do not define "Servername" in odbc.ini
> 
> Instead specify Server, Address and Port keys. If you do not specify
> "port" key it defaults to 4000. 
> 
> Sample odbc.ini entry
> 
> [ASA7]
> Description     = ASA Sybase
> Driver          = /usr/local/lib/libtdsodbc.so
> Server          = [ASA server name]
> Address =       [IP address of the ASA server]
> Port    =        2638
> Trace               = Yes
> TraceFile           = /tmp/odbc_sql.log
> 
> This is much better than using DSQUERY. For one you can specify
> connections to multiple ASA servers ;)

Ugh.  OK, it works.  That's about the best that can be said for it, not
that that's nothing.  I mean, to pass a database name, we have to give
up minor features like DNS-lookup of the server's address.  :-/

Expect this to change one day.  When you upgrade, check the README.  At
least, there'll be an attribute in the DSN or freetds.conf entry that
supports a default database name.  Maybe maybe, we'll add 'DatabaseName'
as a connection string attribute, like (AIUI) Sybase does.  (cf.
http://manuals.sybase.com/onlinebooks/group-sas/awg0703e/dbrfen7/@ebt-li
nk;pt=5012;uf=0?target=0;window=new;showtoc=true;book=dbrfen7 ).

They also mention that if no database name is indicated, you'll be
connected to the Master database by default.  Is there such thing in
ASA?  If so, that should be our default, too.  As far as we know,
non-ASA servers ignore this field, so we could set it to 'master' by
default all the time, not just for ASA servers.  

--jkl

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