FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 00:14:30 +0000
Chris Kings-Lynne <Chris.Kings-Lynne AT navitas.com> wrote:

> Are there any plans to add host and port CLI options to bsqldb?  It's
> a severe pain having to use service definitions :(

Hmm?  Why is it more difficult to specify hostname & port once in
freetds.conf than it is to specify every time on the command line?  

A little-known feature: if the argument to -S is not found in
freetds.conf, it is passed to DNS for resolution.  On my system, 

$ grep willow ~/.freetds.conf
$ TDSDUMPCONFIG=stdout bsqldb -S willow \
< /dev/null | sed -ne '/willow/p; /Final/,/port/p' 
config.c:170:Getting connection information for [willow].
config.c:468:Looking for section willow.
config.c:288:[willow] not found.
config.c:468:Looking for section willow.
config.c:288:[willow] not found.
config.c:1060:Looking for server willow....
config.c:195:Failed to find [willow] in configuration files; trying
'SYBASE' instead.
config.c:209:Final connection parameters:
config.c:210:            server_name = willow
config.c:211:       server_host_name = willow
config.c:212:                ip_addr = 192.168.5.17
config.c:213:          instance_name = MSSQLSERVER
config.c:214:                   port = 1433
bsqldb: Msg 20009, Level 9 (OS error 61: Connection refused)Unable to
connect: Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist

You can control the port with TDSPORT.  Or, you know, it's open
source.  

--jkl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of James K.
> Lowden Sent: Saturday, 16 November 2013 11:13 PM To:
> freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org Subject: Re: [freetds] Executing a huge sql
> script
> 
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:19:45 +0000
> Chris Kings-Lynne <Chris.Kings-Lynne AT navitas.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to execute a huge sql script via tsql and although it
> > can execute from management studio, tsql just fails halfway though.
> > There's no error, nothing.  It just finishes its 10th set of 1000 
> > inserts (with GO between) and simply chooses not to continue on
> > with the next lot, in the same file.
> 
> I don't recommend tsql for that purpose; that's not its intended use.
> tsql is primarily a diagnostic tool for testing the tds library
> independent of the client libraries.  That's why it has a bunch of
> weird options for bypassing the configuration files, for instance.  
> 
> I can't think of a reason offhand it would fail, though.  
> 
> I recommend bsqldb for non-interactive use.  The 'b' stands for
> "batch".  bsqldb will definitely report any errors and messages from
> the server, and will exit if a server message carries a serverity >
> 10.  
> 
> If that doesn't solve your issue, you'll need a TDSDUMP log.  
> 
> HTH.  
> 
> --jkl
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