Re: Ms sql backslash in named instance 2005
Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds |
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| Message-ID | <1256317693.5208.0.camel@freddy> |
Il giorno ven, 23/10/2009 alle 17.46 +0100, [email protected] ha scritto: > Hi, > using freetds version 0.82 on solaris 10. tsql fails to connect to sql server named instances as they contain backslashes. Ie. > tsql -S'hostname\instancename' -U joe -P bloggs > A work around is to remove the backslash in freetds.conf. However, this worked fine in freetds 0.62.4. > > The only error is > 'There was a problem connecting to the server'. > > Its quite important that we maintain the exisiting functionality. > > Has anyone else seen this and is there a solution that would avoid using an unstable version? > > Try -H instead of -S freddy77