Re: connection to SQL server 2008 express

"James K. Lowden" <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:21:42 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Mahendra T wrote:
> 
> Dynamic ports were enabled in the SQL server configuration, It started 
> working after I disabled them and mentioned 1433 as TCP/IP port.

The current snapshot has (as will the next release) a feature to print
instance information with tsql.  Try 

	$ tsql -LH hostname

Hrm.  Just noticed if hostname is not valid, you get no port information
(of course) but also no error message.  That's why releases take longer
than snapshots....

--jkl