FreeTDS Development Group

[Ken Collins <ken AT metaskills.net>]

This? http://www.sqsh.org/

Can you give me some context? How will this help me?


On Mar 9, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Konrad J Hambrick wrote:

> Ken Collins wrote, On 03/09/2011 12:26 PM:
>> 
>> So I am testing TinyTDS with Azure and I am close. I have 0.83.dev 
>> installed with OpenSSL and can connect with tsql.
>> 
>> $ tsql -S azure -U tinytds@abc -P password -D tinytdstest
>> 
>> But I am having an issue with figuring out a way to use a database 
>> setting. I know that Azure does not have a notion of "USE ..." or has a 
>> way to specify a default database with the user account, so I was let with 
>> reverse engineering how tsql accomplishes a connection using the -D option 
>> and I am left stumped as to how I can get TDSCONNECTION's database string 
>> in there. FYI, TinyTDS only uses sybdb.h and sqlfront.h, so some things 
>> that tsql is doing is not a public API. Perhaps there is something that 
>> can be done for this?
>> 
>> I had hoped that putting a database in my freetds.conf would help. For 
>> instance.
>> 
>> [azure]
>>   host = abc.database.windows.net
>>   port = 1433
>>   tds version = 8.0
>>   database = tinytdstest
>> 
>> Since I assumed that this would populate the struct for me. It may just be 
>> doing that, but because of login.c (around line 430) never has db_selected 
>> to false for high TDS versions? Maybe this is not the right spot too since 
>> it ultimately does a "USE " too. I guess the question is, how does tsql 
>> work and how can I help make DBLIB work too?
> 
> Ken --
> 
> Have you looked at sqsh ?
>