FreeTDS Development Group

["Bort, Paul" <pbort AT tmwsystems.com>]

An instance is two things: An entry in a directory that can be queried at
port 1434, and a SQL Server listening on a port other than 1433. 

You can live without the directory if you can discover the port number
assigned to the instance you care about. This is available in the "Server
Network Utility" program. 

Then just forget the whole 'instance' thing and connect to the SQL Server on
that port. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Lilback [mailto:mark AT lilback.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 6:27 PM
> To: FreeTDS Development Group
> Subject: RE: [freetds] Named Instances
> 
> I'm going to want to use this with ctlib without a freetds.conf file. 
> Is there any way to set this via properties or to use the 
> instance name as the host name?
> 
> 
> At 10:20 AM +0200 4/5/2005, ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
> >No, do not confuse ODBC with other stuff. This is implemented in ODBC
> >for compatibility with MS specifications. libTDS do not handle this
> >syntax. Why would you like this syntax? Which library are you using?
> 
> 
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