Re: connection to SQL server 2008 express

On 23/02/10 20:50, Mahendra T wrote:
> On 23/02/10 19:51, Mahendra T wrote:
>> I have gone to the directory where tsql is present and tried connecting
> to
>> SQL server 2008 express which is installed on a windows machine with the
>> following command.
>>
>> tsql -H hostname -p 1433 -U User_name
>> locale is "C"
>> locale charset is "646"
>> Password:
>> There was a problem connecting to the server
>
>> Take a look at http://www.freetds.org/userguide/envvar.htm
>> and try setting TDSVER to 8.0
>
> Thanks David,
> I have tried setting the environment variables, still no luck.
>
> Mahendra

so what do you see when you set the TDSDUMP environment variable?

some documentation for TDSDUMP is at 
http://www.freetds.org/userguide/logging.htm