Re: unixodbc and character identifier limits?

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:57 PM, James K. Lowden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
>  > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:00 AM, James K. Lowden <[email protected]>
>  > wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
>  > >  > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:33 AM, James K. Lowden
>  > >  > <[email protected]> wrote:
>  > >  > > Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
>  > >  > >  > I came across a 30 character
>  > >  > >  >  identifier limit. In results I wasn't able to query my
>  > >  > >  >  records unless
>  > >  > >  > I have changed the identifier name to something under 30 char.
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > >  It sounds like you're using TDS 4.2 or a Sybase server.
>  > >  >
>  > >  > lucas@debianlaptop:~$ apt-cache policy tdsodbc
>  > >  > tdsodbc:
>  > >  >   Installed: 0.63-3.2
>  > >  >
>  > >  > and I am using sqlserver 2000.
>  > >
>  > >  Yes.  I wasn't referring to the FreeTDS release.  I was referring to
>  > >  the version of the TDS protocol you're using.  It's controlled by the
>  > >  configure script, the "tds version" setting in freetds.conf and the
>  > >  TDSVER environment variable (later overriding earlier).  See the UG
>  > >  for details.
>  >
>
> > What version should I change it to? Right now it has:
>  >
>  > [global]
>  >         # TDS protocol version
>  >     tds version = 4.2
>
>  http://www.freetds.org/userguide/choosingtdsprotocol.htm
>
>  "Version 7.0 is recommended for compatibility with SQL Server tools."
>
>  Change
>
>      tds version = 4.2
>
>  to
>
>      tds version = 7.0
>

ok I switched to 7.0 but while using pyodbc / ceodbc I get the following:

>>> connection = ceODBC.Connection("DRIVER={TDS};Server=xxx;UID=xxx;PWD=xxx")
>>> c=connection.cursor()
 >>> c.execute('select xxxxxxx.HISTORY_NUMBER as
xxxxxx_xxxxxx_HISTORY_NUMBER_38_THIS_IS_OVER_30 from
xxxxxx').fetchone()

('    7547',)
>>> print c.description
[('xxxxxx_xxxxx_HISTORY_NUMBER_38_TH', <type 'ceODBC.StringVar'>, 8,
8, 0, 0, False

As you can see the description is cut off?
When I specify the DRIVER={TDS} is that going through
/etc/freetds/freetds.conf ?

This is how I have installed:
vi /etc/freetds/tds.driver.template

[TDS]
Description     = FreeTDS Driver for Linux & MSSQL on Win32
Driver          = /usr/lib/odbc/libtdsodbc.so
Setup           = /usr/lib/odbc/libtdsS.so


odbcinst -i -d -f /etc/freetds/tds.driver.template

Is this correct, or I have to configure something else?

How could I replicate this in isql?
Lucas