Without looking at the perldoc, have you double-checked the pre-test requirements for MSSQL ?<br>Maybe google the results of testing DBD::ODBC against MSSQL and db requirements and environment flags before running tests.<br>
multi-platform testing is a pain and I&#39;ll bet this is just a &quot;do this before that&quot; issue.<br><br>Anyway, looks like the test is expecting table PERL_DBD_TABLE1 to be created sometime during or before testing.<br>
<br>Happy trails <br><br clear="all">Peter Fitzgibbons<br>(847) 687-7646<br>Email: <a href="mailto:peter.fitzgibbons@gmail.com">peter.fitzgibbons@gmail.com</a><br>IM GTalk: peter.fitzgibbons<br>IM Yahoo: pjfitzgibbons<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:02 PM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:younda@rcn.com">younda@rcn.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">









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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi, </span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I'm trying to build DBD::ODBC on a Windows 2003 Server
running Strawberry Perl. &nbsp;The README for DBD::ODBC suggests that you build
it by hand, because there are problems if you do it using the CPAN shell.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">(I tried it, and it doesn't work)&nbsp; I can make the
Makefile, and it builds just fine. &nbsp;But when you run make test, it comes
back with the 3 errors shown below.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I'm using:</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">perl Makefile.PL MAKE=dmake</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">dmake</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">dmake test TEST_VERBOSE=1 &nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I've tried doing the tests using a local Access
database DSN, SQL Server DSN, and Excel file DSN. &nbsp;They all fail (slightly
differently).</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The errors below are when using SQL Server 2000.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Any ideas what may be causing the problem?</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">ydy</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">not ok 13 - ...inserted one row#&nbsp;&nbsp; Failed test
&#39;...inserted one row&#39;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp; at t/07bind.t line 118.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; got:
&#39;0&#39;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; expected: &#39;1&#39;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">ok 14 - insert with named placeholders</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">not ok 15 - ...inserted one row</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp; Failed test &#39;...inserted one row&#39;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp; at t/07bind.t line 132.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; got:
&#39;0&#39;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; expected: &#39;1&#39;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"># Looks like you failed 2 tests of 16.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">ok 16 - no warnings</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;Failed 2/16 subtests</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">t/08bind2...............</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">not ok 54 - no warnings</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp; Failed test &#39;no warnings&#39;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp; at t/20SqlServer.t line 27.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"># There were 3 warning(s)</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Previous test 9 &#39;&#39;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DBD::ODBC::db do
failed: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Cannot drop the table &#39;PERL_DBD_TABLE1&#39;, because it does not
exist in the system</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;catalog. (SQL-42S02) at t/20SqlServer.t line 90.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp; at t/20SqlServer.t line 90</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; eval {...} called at
t/20SqlServer.t line 90</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
main::varmax_test(&#39;DBI::db=HASH(0xbd75bc)&#39;, &#39;varchar&#39;) called at t/20Sql</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Server.t line 131</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"># ----------</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Previous test 13 &#39;&#39;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DBD::ODBC::db do
failed: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Cannot drop the table &#39;PERL_DBD_TABLE1&#39;, because it does not
exist in the system</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;catalog. (SQL-42S02) at t/20SqlServer.t line 90.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp; at t/20SqlServer.t line 90</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; eval {...} called at
t/20SqlServer.t line 90</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
main::varmax_test(&#39;DBI::db=HASH(0xbd75bc)&#39;, &#39;varbinary&#39;) called at t/20S</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">qlServer.t line 132</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"># ----------</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Previous test 17 &#39;&#39;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DBD::ODBC::db do
failed: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Cannot drop the table &#39;PERL_DBD_TABLE1&#39;, because it does not
exist in the system</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;catalog. (SQL-42S02) at t/20SqlServer.t line 90.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp; at t/20SqlServer.t line 90</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; eval {...} called at
t/20SqlServer.t line 90</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
main::varmax_test(&#39;DBI::db=HASH(0xbd75bc)&#39;, &#39;nvarchar&#39;) called at t/20Sq</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">lServer.t line 133</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"># Looks like you failed 1 test of 54.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;Failed 1/54 subtests</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (less 13 skipped
subtests: 40 okay)</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Test Summary Report</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">-------------------</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">t/07bind&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
(Wstat: 512 Tests: 16 Failed: 2)</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp; Failed tests:&nbsp; 13, 15</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp; Non-zero exit status: 2</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">t/20SqlServer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (Wstat:
256 Tests: 54 Failed: 1)</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp; Failed test:&nbsp; 54</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp; Non-zero exit status: 1</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Files=15, Tests=349, 12 wallclock secs ( 0.30 usr +&nbsp;
0.03 sys =&nbsp; 0.33 CPU)</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Result: FAIL</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Failed 2/15 test programs. 3/349 subtests failed.</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">dmake:&nbsp; Error code 255, while making &#39;test_dynamic&#39;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">C:\strawberry\cpan\build\DBD-ODBC-1.17-9UgrBo&gt;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p>

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