FreeTDS Development Group

[gis wautriche <giswautriche AT hotmail.com>]

Answering to myself if ever someone's interested : the freetds module for 
slax (slackware package) is buggy.
Recompiled from source and it works.

Still, I don't know how to change the charset stuff, but there might be some 
thread on this particular subject.

Gis

> Hello there,
> 
> I'm having trouble to connect to a SQLServer (2005 Express Edition) with a 
> slax distro, whereas with ubuntu, using the same freetds version (0.64) and 
> same freetds.conf file, it works like a charm.
> Ubuntu is the distro I use for devel, but I like to deploy a small app on a 
> bootable disk using slax.
> 
> Here is the freetds.conf :
> # first sqlserver (using sqlserver 2000)
> [SQL2000]
>     host = 192.168.0.2
>     port = 1433
>     tds version = 8.0
> 
> # second server (using 2005)
> [SQL2005]
>     host = 192.168.0.3
> 
>     port = 1433
> 
>     tds version = 8.0
> 
> ------ Under ubuntu :
> tsql -S SQL2000 -U sa
> > works !
> 
> tsql -S SQL2005 -U sa
> 
> > works !
> 
> 
> ------- Same freetds.conf under slax : 
> 
> tsql -S SQL2000 -U sa
> 
> > works !
> 
> 
> 
> tsql -S SQL2005 -U sa
> ... HANGS FOREVER ....
> 
> 
> 
> The only difference I can see is the "locale" given by tsql when I run it
> With slax I get :
> 
> locale is "C"
> locale charset is "ANSI_X3.4-1968"
> 
> under Ubuntu, both claims "utf-8"
> 
> Questions are : where is da Problem ?? is this locale charset wrong with MS 
> SQL 2005 ?
> how can I set the locale to utf-8 ?
> I tried to export vars like $LANG to fr_FR but it doesn't work either.
> 
> Thanks.
> Gis.


_________________________________________________________________
Microsoft vous offre un logiciel pour classer, retoucher et partager vos 
photos !
http://www.windowslive.fr/galerie/