FreeTDS Development Group

[Chris Kings-Lynne <Chris.Kings-Lynne AT navitas.com>]

I don't think you understand what Vagrant is Konrad...

Anyway, I'll patch it soon as I have time

-----Original Message-----
From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Konrad Hambrick
Sent: Wednesday, 20 November 2013 1:30 AM
To: 'freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org'
Subject: Re: [freetds] Executing a huge sql script



Not to mention that each Developer can have a distinct $HOME/.freetds.conf 
file ...

-- kjh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of David Chang
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 7:31 PM
> To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [freetds] Executing a huge sql script
> 
> Chris,
> 
> What configuration items are you trying to mix in the freetds.conf 
> file?  Could you provide an example?
> 
> I thought there were just three basic items you needed to connect to a
> server:
> 
> [SERVER_LABEL]
>      host = <hostname>
>      port = <TCP port>
>      tds version = <version number>
> 
> In addition, the tds version can be put in the [global] section so you 
> don't have to specify it for every server.  As for multiple users, so 
> long as you create a unique SERVER_LABEL and put all the configuration 
> in there, you are insulated from the the other servers as well as the 
> [global] section.
> 
> DC
> 
> On 11/18/2013 4:41 PM, Chris Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Using freetds.conf is horrible.  It mixes together code-level 
> > configuration with system
> root-level static files.  It doesn't work when you have dozens of 
> developers sharing a single Vagrant environment definition, but 
> different SQL servers.  It doesn't work when you are stamping out lots 
> of instances in the cloud, etc.  I have resorted to using TDSPORT and 
> TDSHOST, but I'm not yet 100% sure of what exactly the scope of 
> setting the environment variable is, will it conflict with multiple 
> different database connections, all set to only connect on demand, etc.
> >
> > I'm firing up a dev linux VM now to look at adding host and port 
> > settings, which I'll
> try to do over time.  I also need to do my own build of freetds anyway 
> so my developers can actually have error messages in PHP as per my 
> first mail to this list :(
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> > [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On
> Behalf Of James K. Lowden
> > Sent: Monday, 18 November 2013 1:18 PM
> > To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: Re: [freetds] Executing a huge sql script
> >
> > 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
_______________________________________________
FreeTDS mailing list
FreeTDS AT lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/freetds
--
Message  protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content 
filtering.http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg
Click here to report this message as spam:
https://login.mailguard.com.au/report/1IpFQgcTnJ/7k4ybtrYLjM2WxkYLlCKBr/0