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  • From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Using FreeTDS ODBC on Windows
  • Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 20:43:48 -0400

Navdeep Shergill wrote:
>
> I came across this page on the FreeTDS list:
> http://www.freetdsorg/userguide/prepodbc.htm
>
> It mentions the 3 choices for ODBC (DSN-less, ODBC-only, ODBC-combined).
> I figure the one I would use is the ODBC-combined since I can just write
> the dsn names in the odbc.ini file and have all the information in the
> freetds.conf file. Does the 'DSN-less' option mean that I just need a
> freetds.conf file?

Yes. DSN-less means any connection attributes not contained in
freetds.conf go in the connection string. Use "Servername=" in your
connection string to tell the driver you're talking about a dataserver in
freetds.conf.

> How do I enable these options?

Nothing to "enable" afaik.

HTH.

--jkl




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