FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:34:49 +0530
Sankar G <geoinnovate AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Using ODBC-Combined strategy
> DSN [SERVER] has servername "" (from /usr/local/etc/odbc.ini)

I'm not sure your connection string is right in your DBD connection,
but it's always a good idea to make test your ODBC setup with osql, as
you did.  And it seems you either tickled a bug in osql or maybe
there's something else amiss.  

What's odd is that osql finds the right stanza
in /usr/local/etc/odbc.ini:

    [SERVER]
    Driver = FreeTDS
    Description = ODBC connection via FreeTDS
    ServerName = SERVER

 but then reports: 

DSN [SERVER] has servername "" (from /usr/local/etc/odbc.ini)

Looking at the osql script, I can only guess your awk works differently
from mine.  What does the following show on your computer?  I get: 

 $ SERVER_LINE='ServerName = SERVER'
 $ echo ${SERVER_LINE} | awk -F '=[[:space:]]*' '{print $2}' 
 SERVER

If yours doesn't also print 'SERVER', we need to modify osql so it
does.  If it does print 'SERVER', I don't understand how osql could
find the right line and not parse it correctly.  

To isolate yourself from Perl *and* osql bugs, you could always try

        $ TDSVER=7.2 bsqlodbc -S SERVER -U username -P password

(sudo shouldn't be necessary.) 

HTH.

--jkl