FreeTDS Development Group

["Stephan Herschel" <Stephan.Herschel AT biovertis.com>]

apparently i solved this myself now:

in <oracle-home>/hs/admin/init<SID>.ora I have to use 
HS_FDS_SHAREABLE_NAME = /usr/lib/libodbc.so
instead of
HS_FDS_SHAREABLE_NAME = /usr/local/lib/libtdsodbc.so

Ouch!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephan Herschel 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 6:33 PM
> To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [freetds] Oracle heterogeneous connection with 
> FreeTDS: Failed to load dynamic library
> 
> 
> Hi,
> We're using Oracle 10G on Suse Linux. To enable a connection 
> to SQLServer I've set up an ODBC-connection with FreeTDS and 
> unixODBC. The connection works as can be tested with FreeTDS' 
> tsql and unixODBC's isql.
> 
> The server is defined like this:
> ===
> [snorred]
>        host = snorred
>        port = 1433
>        tds version = 8.0
> ===
> 
> Tsql's output is like this:
> ===
> oradba@wickie02:~/OraHome_1/network/admin> tsql -S snorred -U 
> sa -C Compile-time settings (established with the "configure" script):
>                            Version: freetds v0.63
>     MS db-lib source compatibility: no
>        Sybase binary compatibility: unknown
>                      Thread safety: yes
>                      iconv library: yes
>                        TDS version: 5.0
>                              iODBC: no
>                           unixodbc: yes
> ===
> 
> (I don't know why there is this mismatch with TDS-version)
> 
> 
> 
> I've set up the hsodbc connection similar to a working 
> connection to MySQL. 
> When issuing select statements from within Oracle I get:
> 
> ===
> SQL> select * from bla@snorred;
> select * from bla@snorred
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-28500: connection from ORACLE to a non-Oracle system 
> returned this message: [Generic Connectivity Using 
> ODBC][C077] Could not find symbol 'SQLDescribeParam' in 
> dynamic library [C079] Failed to load dynamic library 
> '/usr/local/lib/libtdsodbc.so' [C077] Could not find symbol 
> 'SQLExtendedFetch' in dynamic library [C079] Failed to load 
> dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/libtdsodbc.so'
> ORA-02063: preceding 5 lines from SNORRED
> ===
> 
> Any hints are very welcome,
> Stephan
> 
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