FreeTDS Development Group

["Adam Clark" <adam.clark AT ngv.vic.gov.au>]

I'm using the following:
DBD::Sybase -- 1.07
DBI -- 1.54
Perl -- 5.8.8

and the FreeTDS 0.64 (the stable tarball)

What does the patch do?

Is there anything such as dumps (I don't know how to produce these) of
debugging that I can produce to help this?

Adam 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of 
> ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT
> Sent: Monday, 24 September 2007 5:06 PM
> To: FreeTDS Development Group
> Subject: Re: [freetds] SQL Server 2005 and TDS version 8
> 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> >   I have been using some perl scripts with SQL 2000 for a while now 
> > and our organisation is looking to use 2005 in the near future.
> > 
> > The only way I can get a connection to SQL 2005 is to lower my TDS 
> > version to 7.0.
> > 
> > This does not help me as I require the BIGINT functionality that 
> > exists with 8.0
> > 
> > The SQL 2000 server is virtuoso, 2005 is bunny.
> > 
> > [virtuoso]
> >         host = virtuoso.boh.ngv.local
> >         port = 1433
> >         tds version = 8.0
> > 
> > [bunny]
> >         host = bunny.boh.ngv.local
> >         port = 1433
> >         tds version = 7.0
> > 
> > if I change the TDS version to 8.0 then there is a huge 
> pause before 
> > failing.  I have tested the SQL authentication with other 
> tools such 
> > as the SQL 2000 Query analyser.
> > 
> > my script (db-test2.pl) is:
> > use DBI;
> > $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Sybase:server=bunny", "sa" , "sapasswd" ,
> >                 {PrintError => 0,
> >                  RaiseError => 0,
> >                  PrintWarn  => 0,
> >                  AutoCommit => 0 });
> > 
> > print "Unable to connect\n" unless defined( $dbh );
> > 
> > push( @I_Errors , "DBI Error: " . $DBI::errstr ) if ( $DBI::err );
> > 
> > if ( @I_Errors ) {
> >         foreach ( @I_Errors ) {
> >                 chomp;
> >                 print "$_\n";
> >         }
> >         exit 127;
> > }
> > 
> > when run:
> > 
> > [aclark@chromium common]$ ./db-test2.pl #### Insert long wait here 
> > #### Unable to connect DBI Error: OpenClient message: LAYER = (0) 
> > ORIGIN = (0) SEVERITY = (78) NUMBER = (36) Server bunny, database 
> > Message String: Read from SQL server failed.
> > OpenClient message: LAYER = (0) ORIGIN = (0) SEVERITY = 
> (78) NUMBER =
> > (46)
> > Server bunny, database
> > Message String: Login incorrect.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > 
> > Adam Clark
> > Network Administrator
> > 
> 
> Which FreeTDS version are you using?
> Are you using domain authentication?
> If you are using 0.64 did you apply patch at 
> http://freetds.sourceforge.net/?
> 
> freddy77
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