FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Jeff Dahl
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:19 PM
> 
> Frederik Teerlinck wrote:
> > ret = SQLDriverConnect(connection, NULL, (SQLCHAR *)
> > "DRIVER=FreeTDS;Address=<IPaddress of the SQL
> > server>;UID=<login>;PWD=<pwd>;DATABASE=<DBname>;port=<port>;",
> > SQL_NTS, outConnectionString, 1024, &len, SQL_DRIVER_NOPROMPT);
> > ....
> >   
> Did you replace <IPaddress of the SQL server>, <login>, <pwd>,
> <DBname>, and <port> with the correct values
>
(i.e."DRIVER=FreeTDS;Address=my.servers.ip.address;UID=myLogin;PWD=myPas
sword;DATABASE=myDatabaseName;port=myDatabasePort;"
> )?

The fact that SQLAllocHandle returns SQL_ERROR indicates a problem
before the connection is even attempted.  

I think the function you want is SQLGetDiagRec.  

If you have access to a Windows machine, download the latest Microsoft
Data Access SDK and look at its ODBC documentation.  If not, try
searching for SQLAllocHandle on ibm.com; they have pretty good
documentation for their DB2 ODBC driver, which conforms to ODBC
standards, such as they are.  In any case, you need some documentation,
because ODBC is a complicated beast.  

If you're flexible about which API to use, I always recommend db-lib as
the best documented and easiest to use.  YMMV, of course.  

HTH.  

--jkl

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