FreeTDS Development Group

["Paparo, Joshua" <Joshua.Paparo AT bankofamerica.com>]

Hi J. David,

The first thing I did was to build sqsh with the modifications mentioned
at http://www.freetds.org/userguide/software.htm#SQSH 

Then I enabled logging by putting a "dump file" entry in my freetds.conf
file. This will give your plenty of output.

I am also using SQL Sever 2000 and therefore set my TDS version to 8.0
in my conf file.

If you want DBD::Sybase to work you'll need to compile that module with
your SYBASE env variable set to your freetds install area and go from
there.

Josh




-----Original Message-----
From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Blackstone, J.
David
Sent: 14 February 2005 17:48
To: 'freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org'
Subject: [freetds] MS SQL Server

  I am trying to connect to MS SQL Server with FreeTDS from Solaris.  My
background is a Perl and Oracle programmer, so I am a little bit out of
my
league.

  Initially I had been trying to use DBD::Sybase.  When that did not
work, I
tried unixODBC and sqsh, each of which seemed to have the same problem.

  Finally I have discovered tsql (mentioned in the FAQ) hidden in my
/usr/local/freetds/bin directory.  I presume this is the right tool I
need
to use to try to isolate the problem and minimize the possibility that
my
problems could be from other tools such as DBD::Sybase.

  I am using FreeTDS version 0.62.4.  I did not add any options to
configure
other than to build the unixODBC driver and install in
/usr/local/freetds.
I have tried multiple TDS protocol versions, even those not expected to
work
with MS SQL server.  None seem to work.  I always seem to get an
"unknown
marker" error, although some tools additionally report a "Login
incorrect"
error.

  The SQL Server admins report that the version number is 8.00.760,
although
they included a screenshot showing a "File version" of 2000.80.760.0.  I
presume this means I am dealing with SQL Server 2000.  I note that the
"Configurations that work" section of the user manual reports TDS
version
4.2 and 7.0 working for my setup
(http://www.freetds.org/userguide/configurations.htm), but they don't
seem
to work in this case.

  My first question is this.  Given a commandline of the following form:

TDSVER=x.x tsql -H 10.x.x.x -p xxxx -U username

.. what should I set TDSVER to in order to expect tsql to be able to
connect?

  Second, now that I am trying to use tsql for debugging, it seems to
hang
forever, or else is using a very long timeout.  How can I get more
verbose
output from this tool for sharing with this list so I can beg for more
help?

Thanks for any help that can be provided,
J. David
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