[Melbourne-pm] Connecting to a MSSQL 2005 server
David Dick
ddick at iinet.net.au
Wed Jun 9 21:23:38 PDT 2010
On 10/06/10 14:03, Guy Morton wrote:
> Hello fellow perlers,
>
> I am having trouble getting DBI to connect to an MSSQL 2005 server.
>
> I have FreeTDS installed.
>
> I have DBD::Sybase installed:
>
> $ perl -MDBI -e 'DBI->installed_versions;'
> Perl : 5.008008 (i386-freebsd-64int)
> OS : freebsd (6.1-release)
> DBI : 1.607
> DBD::mysql : 4.010
> DBD::Sybase : 1.02
> DBD::Sponge : 12.010002
> DBD::SQLite2 : 0.33
> DBD::SQLite : 1.14
> DBD::Proxy : install_driver(Proxy) failed: Can't locate RPC/PlClient.pm in @INC
> DBD::Gofer : 0.011565
> DBD::File : 0.35
> DBD::ExampleP : 12.010007
> DBD::DBM : 0.03
>
> So, it *kinda* looks like this:
>
> use DBI;
>
> my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Sybase:server=myserver", 'user','pass') || die $DBI::errstr;
>
> should work, but it generates this error instead:
>
> DBI connect('server=myserver','user',...) failed: (no error string) at mssqltest.pl line 3
> Died at mssqltest.pl line 3.
>
> Anyone got any clues they can throw me?
i have to admit that i have been working a lot with this setup. first
thing to do is to set the TDSDUMP environment variable, documented at
http://www.freetds.org/userguide/logging.htm
you can either work through the issues by looking at the log, or post
the log so we can help.
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