On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:13:56 -0500 Vijay Sankar <vsan...@foretell.ca> wrote:
> I am trying to access a database hosted on a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 > using FreeTDS and iodbc from OpenBSD 4.5 -stable (also tried OpenBSD > -current as of today). Unfortunately none of the documents I have read > so far or the various trials/tests have helped. I can use tsql and > access the SQL Server but I am not able to use iodbcadm-gtk to add a DSN > etc. > > The standard package as well as the msdblib flavor did not work for me > and as a result I made a few changes to the Makefile > > Looks like I made some small progress however, I get the error > > HYC00 [FreeTDS][SQL Server]Driver not capable > 08001: [FreeTDS][SQL Server]Unable to connect to data source > [....] > > I hope the list can give me any advice or pointers on what is the best > way to access data from a SQL Server 2005 database from OpenBSD > > Thanks very much, > > Vijay > > -- > Vijay Sankar, M.Eng., P.Eng. > ForeTell Technologies Limited > 59 Flamingo Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3J 0X6 > Phone: (204) 885-9535, E-Mail: vsan...@foretell.ca > > Here is a trivialized interface to mssql using freetds and php. It supports reads and writes. Dhu <?php /* Copyright (C) <2005> <Duncan Patton a Campbell aka Duncan Duibh> (Bzerkley terms) Duncan Patton a Campbell can be contacted at campb...@neotext.ca, or campb...@indx.ca. sqNdhu.php -- general purpose access to SQL databases .. here implemented for commandline operations php -f sqNdhu.php line one on stdin == MSSQL/MSHOST:1433/Uname/Upass/Dbname/ line one on stdin == MYSQL/MYHOST:3306/Uname/Upass/Dbname/ line two thru n-1 == select/insert/replace... line n == \n uses http://www.freetds.org/ libraries */ $stdinline = trim(fgets(STDIN)); list($stype,$hnp,$dbu,$dbp,$dbn) = split("/", $stdinline) ; switch ($stype) { case "MSSQL": { $db = mssql_connect($hnp,$dbu,$dbp); if(!$db) { $handle=fopen('/tmp/perror.err', 'a');fwrite($handle, "Could not connect"); fwrite($handle, "\n\n"); fclose($handle); exit("Could not connect"); } if(!mssql_select_db($dbn,$db)) { $handle=fopen('/tmp/perror.err', 'a');fwrite($handle, "Could not select database"); fwrite($handle, "\n\n"); fclose($handle); exit("Could not select database"); } /* Performing SQL query */ while($squery= trim(fgets(STDIN))) { //$handle=fopen('/tmp/perror.err', 'a');fwrite($handle, "MySqery:".$squery); fwrite($handle, "\n\n"); fclose($handle); $result = mssql_query($squery) or die("Query failed : " . $squery); if(is_resource($result)) { $num_results = mssql_num_rows($result); echo "\n" . $num_results; if($num_results == 0) echo "\n"; for ($i=0; $i <$num_results; $i++) { while($myrow = mssql_fetch_row($result)) { $colcnt = count($myrow); echo "\n" . $colcnt; for($x=0; $x < $colcnt; $x++) { echo sprintf("\n%d ",strlen($myrow[$x])) . $myrow[$x]; } } } mssql_free_result($result); } else { echo "\n1\n1\n1 !"; } } mssql_close($db); } break; case "MYSQL": { $db = mysql_connect($hnp,$dbu,$dbp); if(!$db) { $handle=fopen('/tmp/perror.err', 'a');fwrite($handle, "Could not connect"); fwrite($handle, "\n\n"); fclose($handle); exit("Could not connect"); } if(!mysql_select_db($dbn,$db)) { $handle=fopen('/tmp/perror.err', 'a');fwrite($handle, "Could not select database"); fwrite($handle, "\n\n"); fclose($handle); exit("Could not select database"); } /* Performing SQL query */ while($squery= trim(fgets(STDIN))) { //$handle=fopen('/tmp/perror.err', 'a');fwrite($handle, "MySqery:".$squery); fwrite($handle, "\n\n"); fclose($handle); $result = mysql_query($squery) or die("Query failed : " . $squery); if(is_resource($result)) { $num_results = mysql_num_rows($result); echo "\n" . $num_results; if($num_results == 0) echo "\n"; for ($i=0; $i <$num_results; $i++) { while($myrow = mysql_fetch_row($result)) { $colcnt = count($myrow); echo "\n" . $colcnt; for($x=0; $x < $colcnt; $x++) { echo sprintf("\n%d ",strlen($myrow[$x])) . $myrow[$x]; //$handle=fopen('/tmp/perror.err', 'a');fwrite($handle, "."); fwrite($handle, "-"); fclose($handle); } } } mysql_free_result($result); } else { echo "\n1\n1\n1 !"; } } mysql_close($db); } break; } //end switch fflush(STDOUT); exit(); ?>
