FreeTDS Development Group

["Patrick Dunnigan" <patrick.dunnigan AT centivia.com>]

To be honest, it's been a while since I used the freeTDS, DBD:ODBC setup. 
Following is my old config, so this may help or not. However, I do know that 
the freeTDS, DBD:Sybase setup works very well. I benchmarked a couple of 
years ago and made the switch (basically cut the unixODBC and DBD:ODBC out). 
It connects faster and for highend transactional performance seems to be 
faster. Plus there is one less piece of software to setup and you can go 
DSN'less if you want.

'course, there's probably a reason you went with ODBC on unix, so here's my 
old config.

Good Luck,
Patrick


odbc.ini ->

[mydb]
Driver          = TDS
Servername      = 10.1.x.x
PORT            = 1433
Database        = userid
UID             = password

odbcinst.ini ->

[TDS]
Driver          = /usr/local/lib/libtdsodbc.so

freetds.conf ->

[mydb]
       host = 10.1.2.58
       port = 1433






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jamie Lawrence" <freetds-lists-ibilio-org AT jal.org>
To: <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 6:41 PM
Subject: [freetds] Attempting to connect to MS SQL


> Hi folks,
>
> I've tried searching the archives, so far to no avail.
>
> I'm attempting to connect to a SQL Server 2K machine via FreeTDS, for an
> Apache/mod_perl/DBD::ODBC app from a Debian/Stable machine.
>
> My first attempt was with the .deb for FreeTDS, which is quite old:
>
> $Id: tds.h.in,v 1.9 2001/12/03 00:06:14 brianb Exp $
>
> After setting up, I could only connect through ODBC (isql) if I had a
> $HOME/.odbc.ini config file - it appears to ignore /etc/odbc.ini . So,
> it would work interactively, but a local config isn't an option for my
> application ($ENV{HOME} is not defined).
>
> So, I built from source (FreeTDS-stable as of last Friday), and have
> been playing with that version since then, and cannot connect at all.
>
> My odbc.ini uses (currently) this entry (I'm attempting to go the "ODBC
> Only" route described in the online docs):
>
> [testdsn]
> Description     = Test sql server config
> Driver          = /usr/local/freetds/lib/libtdsodbc.so
> Servername      = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> UID             = xxx
> PWD             = xxx
> Port            = 1433
> Database        = test
> TDS_Version     = 4.2
>
> (I've tried it with TDS_Version set to 7.0 and 8.0 as well; 4.2 is
> what the really old libraries I tried first were using for a successful
> interactive connect.)
>
> Out of Isql, i get
>
> $ isql -v testdsn xxx xxx
> [unixODBC][FreeTDS][SQL Server]Unable to connect to data source
> [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect
>
>
> Setting logging on, the operative errors seem to be;
>
> 18:05:56.409119 IP address pointer is NULL
> 18:05:56.409265 Server SYBASE not found!
>
> From a looks of a couple of messages in the archives, it appears that
> this indicates that the DSN is not being picked up, or perhaps it is
> falling back to looking for a default server 'SYBASE'.
>
> Is that accurate? None of my {odbc.ini, odbcinst.ini, freetds.conf} have a
> definition for that name.
>
> I must admit to still being mildly confused as to the role of the
> freetds.conf file when attempting an ODBC only config, and have been
> trying various combinations of params scattered there, too, but if
> anyone could whack me with a cluestick, I'd be much obliged.
>
> For reference, a DSN that worked with the really old libs is:
>
> [dsnold]
> Description     = minimal working version
> Driver          = FreeTDS
> Servername      = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> UID             = xxx
> PWD             = xxx
> Port            =
> Database        = test
>
> With the odbcinst.ini entry:
>
> [FreeTDS]
> Description         = TDS driver (Sybase/MS SQL)
> Driver              = /usr/lib/odbc/libtdsodbc.so
> Setup          = /usr/lib/odbc/libtdsS.so
> CPTimeout           =
> CPReuse             =
> FileUsage           = 1
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -j
>
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