FreeTDS Development Group

[Tony Esposito <Tony.Esposito AT region10.org>]

More interesting stuff...
Viewing Sybase Central, the Sybase DBA tool, shows that I have an active 
connection when I use isql.  In other words, I am making a successful 
connection to the database with the config I have but for some reason not 
returning rows (or not able to see table due to privs).  Yet 'help' can see 
the system catalog tables and return information about the tables I want to 
select from...

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Esposito 
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 3:20 PM
To: FreeTDS Development Group
Cc: Tony Esposito
Subject: RE: [freetds] osql and isql -- how to test ODBC config?

Thanks for the suggestions.  I unfortunately get no results from 'man bsqldb' 
or man bsqlodbc' from my Linux system.  Did you mean to refer to 'man' via 
the web instead?

Did you happen to see my follow-up emails?  I can connect and access the 
system tables by virtue of the fact that the 'help' command works in 'isql' 
and returns the table description (see follow-up email I sent last night for 
an example of this).
What I don't seem to be getting is access to database-specific tables.  The 
tool 'isql' shows no rows returned. (-1 rsow count).  I tried 'bsqlodbc' and 
it just hangs....

I tried your reference to ASA database in the freetds.conf file and no change.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I greatly appreciate the time you 
have already spent.  You are the best!
'

Tony Esposito
ETL Developer 
Information Services Programming
Region 10 Education Service Center
400 E Spring Valley Rd
Richardson, TX  75081
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-----Original Message-----
From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of James K. Lowden
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 3:01 PM
To: FreeTDS Development Group
Subject: Re: [freetds] osql and isql -- how to test ODBC config?

On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 03:55:16 +0000
> I am not familiar with 'bsqldb'.  
> Can I just run it from bash shell prompt? 

I think you know the answer to that now, but for the record bsqldb is 
documented as a man page.  "man bsqldb" is your friend.  :-)

I misled you, though.  I meant to suggest you use bsqlodbc (similarly 
documented).  I hope it will do a better job of error reporting.  

Because you're using Sybase Anywhere I'll draw your attention to a footnote 
in the UG:
http://www.freetds.org/userguide/freetdsconf.htm#FTN.AEN942.  

See also the "ASA database" in freetds.conf.  It might be something in that 
neighborhood.  I suspect so only because I see nothing wrong with your 
odbc.ini and because osql didn't report a problem.  

> Tried the following from the Linux shell prompt:  
>
>       bsqldb -S txeis -U dba -P sql
>
> And got the following error message:
> bsqldb: Msg 20012, Level 2 Server name not found in configuration 
> files
> 
> bsqldb: Msg 20013, Level 2
> Unknown host machine name

Msg 20012 comes from FreeTDS.  It means FreeTDS couldn't convert the provided 
name to an ip addreess.  The relevant part of the TDSDUMP is 

> dblib.c:7929:dbperror(0x1121510, 20013, 0)
> dblib.c:7981:20013: "Unknown host machine name"
> dblib.c:8002:"Unknown host machine name", client returns 2
> (INT_CANCEL) util.c:361:tdserror: client library returned
> TDS_INT_CANCEL(2) util.c:384:tdserror: returning TDS_INT_CANCEL(2) 
> login.c:423:IP address pointer is empty login.c:425:Server txeis not 
> found!

What should the "provided name" be?  Outside ODBC, servers are known to 
FreeTDS by their servername, a section name in freetds.conf.  Yours is
DB246111 because 

> [DB246111]
> host = 207.235.236.120
> port = 2638
> tds version = 5.0

so your command in bsqldb would be

        $ bsqldb -S DB246111 -U dba -P sql 

just as with tsql. 

Inside ODBC, it's too dark to read.  (Apologies to Groucho Marx.) 

In odbc.ini, the servername property names a freetds.conf servername, and the 
utility (bsqlodbc or isql) is provided with the DSN name (Data Source Name, 
not to be confused with DNS). Yours is txeis because

> [txeis]
> Driver=FreeTDS
> Description=Sybase TXEIS Database
> Servername=DB246111
> Port=2638
> TDS_Version=5.0

so your command would be 

        $ bsqlodbc -S txeis -U dba -P sql 

HTH.  

--jkl
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