FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: bpollard AT micron.com
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:28 PM
> 
> Has anyone used freebcp on Solaris?  I am migrating a fairly large job
> to MSSQL and I did not want to re-write it in perl, so I took the
> shell code and replaced isql with tsql, then found freebcp to replace
> bcp.  The only problem is that freebcp does not load the data nor
> produce an error file.  Any ideas?
> 
> unix$ cat /var/tmp/test.out
> 1 2
> 3 4
> 5 6
> 7 8
> 9 0
> 
> MSSQL$ create table test (a char(10), b char(10))
> MSSQL$ grant insert on test to public
> 
> /mu/sdk/freetds/0.61.2/bin/freebcp temp_bcp..test in /var/tmp/test.out
> -c -b 2 -UDBA_SA -Ppwdnotlisted -SBOMSSDEVL19 -e /var/tmp/test.err
> 
> Starting copy...
> 
> 0 rows copied.
> 
> unix$ ls -ltr /var/tmp/test.err
> /var/tmp/test.err: No such file or directory

Suggestion 1: upgrade.  Use 0.63.  freebcp with 0.61 did not write error
files.  IIRC the man page says so?  I remember making several fixes to
the bcp library during 0.62.  

Suggsetion 2: put a tab character between your columns.  

$ hexdump -C t
00000000  31 09 32 0a 33 09 34 0a  35 09 36 0a 37 09 38 0a
|1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.|
00000010  39 09 30 0a                                       |9.0.|

Definitely it's not a Solaris issue and definitely FreeTDS works on
Solaris.  Sometimes, though, with bcp you may find the error messages a
bit obscure or misleading.  Setting TDSDUMP is your first resort,
unfortunately.  

HTH.  

--jkl

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