Comments on: ADODB on FreeBSD http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20090523/adodb-on-freebsd/ Information, opinions, ideas and rants from my family and friends in Sacramento, California, US. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Jim http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20090523/adodb-on-freebsd/#comment-97194 Jim Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:22:57 +0000 http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20090523/adodb-on-freebsd/#comment-97194 <p>Over the last few days I've had to rebuild FreeTDS. I discovered a few things that might be helpful in the future:</p> <ul> <li>$ tsql -C (at the shell prompt) will show you the compile-time options used for tsql and FreeTDS. In particular, it will show the default "TDS version", which seems to affect the debug/dump output.</li> <li># env TDS_VER=8.0 portmaster databases/freetds (at Charlie Root's prompt) will build FreeTDS with SQL Server 2008 (?) support as the default. The dump file under this version is much more informative.</li> </ul> <p>Some other tidbits from <a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/freetds/2011q1/026809.html">this post</a> on the freetds mailing list: James (maintainer) has been having some technical troubles from his hosting company (which knocked www.freetds.org off the Internet), as well as SourceFourge. He's planning to bail out of SourceForge once the upcoming release is finished.</p> Over the last few days I’ve had to rebuild FreeTDS. I discovered a few things that might be helpful in the future:

  • $ tsql -C (at the shell prompt) will show you the compile-time options used for tsql and FreeTDS. In particular, it will show the default “TDS version”, which seems to affect the debug/dump output.
  • # env TDS_VER=8.0 portmaster databases/freetds (at Charlie Root’s prompt) will build FreeTDS with SQL Server 2008 (?) support as the default. The dump file under this version is much more informative.

Some other tidbits from this post on the freetds mailing list: James (maintainer) has been having some technical troubles from his hosting company (which knocked http://www.freetds.org off the Internet), as well as SourceFourge. He’s planning to bail out of SourceForge once the upcoming release is finished.

]]> By: Jim http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20090523/adodb-on-freebsd/#comment-72674 Jim Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:41:16 +0000 http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20090523/adodb-on-freebsd/#comment-72674 <p>I forgot to post our success! The <a href="http://www.freetds.org/userguide/freetdsconf.htm" rel="nofollow">FreeTDS configuration</a> was indeed the problem. We were trying to specify the DNS name of our (MicroSoft) SQLServer, when we should have been using the "dataserver" name (whatever is specified in square brackets in the freetds.conf file).</p> I forgot to post our success! The FreeTDS configuration was indeed the problem. We were trying to specify the DNS name of our (MicroSoft) SQLServer, when we should have been using the “dataserver” name (whatever is specified in square brackets in the freetds.conf file).

]]> By: Jim http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20090523/adodb-on-freebsd/#comment-66370 Jim Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:27:09 +0000 http://sonicchicken.net/blog/wordpress/20090523/adodb-on-freebsd/#comment-66370 <p>I think the final problem might have to do with the <a href="http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2005/06/16/sql-server-2000-notes/">FreeTDS configuration</a> on the server. I'll have my student assistant check into that tomorrow morning.</p> I think the final problem might have to do with the FreeTDS configuration on the server. I’ll have my student assistant check into that tomorrow morning.

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