FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <james.k.lowden AT alliancebernstein.com>]

> From: Fedor
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:41 PM
> 
> I ran into a problem when trying to connect to a database with a
> dash (-) in the name. If I incase the database name in single quotes
> it tries to connect to it using double single quotes in the name,
> ie. ''test-db''.
> 
> ...
> 
> Driver  = FreeTDS
> Description     = TestDSN
> Trace   = No
> Server      = 192.168.1.1
> Port      = 1433
> Database        =test-db
> 
> Looks like there's a command line function being used to connect
> and it uses the dash for parameters/options and I've tried incasing
> the name various ways and it's just not working.

Could you try 

        Database        = [test-db]
and
        Database        = test\-db

If neither of those work, I'd be interested to see a TDSDUMP log of the
attempts.  You'll need to set TDSVER=4.2 to see the login packet.  If
you post it, beware it will include your password (twice).  

--jkl

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