FreeTDS Development Group

["Gene Dymarskiy" <gagarin AT i-dep.com>]

I am not sure it is possible to pass  "tds version" from odbc.ini 

It does not cause me problems now since I built FreeTDS with version 5.0
but I can see this is being a drawback of not using freetds.conf
settings with odbc 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of 
> Lowden, James K
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 2:53 PM
> To: FreeTDS Development Group
> Subject: RE: [freetds] Sybase ASA 7, unixODBC problem
> 
> > 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/dbrfe
> n7/@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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