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  • From: "Andrew H. Wakefield" <a_wake AT earthlink.net>
  • To: Paul Thurston <pthurston AT netegrate.com>
  • Cc: 'FreeTDS Development Group' <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Using freetds in Windows
  • Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:22:25 -0500

Paul, many thanks -- that took care of the problem with tsql. Now I just
need to figure out what my program is doing differently from tsql, and
maybe I'll finally get this show on the road ...

Andy Wakefield
a_wake AT earthlink.net

On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 06:30 -0500, Paul Thurston wrote:
> Andrew:
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> On Windows, if your using v0.82, you’ll need to set the environment
> variable FREETDSCONF to point to your freetds.conf file.
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> Also, remember to escape the file path sequence as follows: SET
> FREETDSCONF=C:\\Apps\\FreeTDS\\etc\\freetds.conf
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> In the freetds.con file itself, make sure that line host=<Address> is
> a valid IP address to the database server.
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> Paul
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Andrew H.
> Wakefield
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:15 AM
> To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [freetds] Using freetds in Windows
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> I have successfully cross-compiled freetds-0.82 for Windows. I can use
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> the resulting tsql.exe with an explicit host and port (e.g., tsql -H
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> 127.0.0.1 -p 1433 -U username) and connect to the SQL Server. However,
> I
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> cannot seem to find a way to use a server name (e.g., tsql -S
> SQLEXPRESS
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> -U username). In Linux, I put the server information into the
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> freetds.conf file and it works fine. I have tried putting the server
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> information into freetds.conf and .freetds.conf in the MS-DOS
> directory
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> where tsql.exe is running; I have tried setting the environment
> variable
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> FREETDS to point to this file. Nothing has worked. Help!
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