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["Tony Baldarelli" <tbaldarelli AT wmsvision.com>]

Actually, someone else mentioned at -D option.  Because it was not in "man
tsql", I missed the command line option.  Don't see it online either.
Weird.  Your idea is still a good idea, so I may still end up using it if I
find some other problem that the -D option does not fix.  Thanks.

 

 

Tony

 

From: Robert Hetzel [mailto:beh AT case.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 8:43 PM
To: tbaldarelli AT wmsvision.com
Subject: Re: [freetds] tsql knowing which DB to default to

 

Can you use a separate userids for each application, setting a different
default database for each?

    Bob

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Tony Baldarelli <tbaldarelli AT wmsvision.com>
wrote:

Hello,

               For my production server, it just so happens that the
database I use is the default database.  As such, I don't need to use the
following to connect to the correct database inside tsql:

               use <database>

               go

But now we have 2 other databases that just happen to be on the same server.
This requires me to use the "use <database>" pattern to connect to the
correct database.  I thought this setup would get around that requirement,
but it does not:

               [Wms_Stage]

                   host = PBMVMWMSSQLDEV

                   port = 1433

                   tds version = 8.0

                   database=WMS_STAGE

I actually think "database" is not supported as I don't see it in the
documentation online.  So either that changed, or someone added it and then
never got rid of it since it does not seem to cause a problem.  I want to
make my application ( including SQL scripts ) as blind as possible to the
database, but I cannot if I have to use the "use <database>" pattern for 2
databases, but not the production one.  Is there a way to tell tsql to use a
particular database so I don't have to?  Note that since "tsql" is run from
a special shell script ( called "sql" ), a perfectly valid option would be
to have a command line option to tsql that tells tsql to use a particular
database.  Also, an environmental variable would also work, for this same
reason.  Thanks.  I could not see an obvious way to do it in the
documentation.



In case you are wondering, I commonly run a command like this: sql <
report.sql.  Since "sql" is defined differently for each database (
actually, each Linux user ), I just want to be able to "run" the same sql
script against all 3 databases without any changes at all.  Thus my
questions above.  Here is an example of the "sql" script using the above
freetds.conf setup:

               [wmsStage]> more sql

               tsql -S Wms_Stage -U <user name removed for security> -P
<Password removed for security>

               echo

               [wmsStage]>



Tony Baldarelli



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