Comments on: Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server from Mac OS X http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/ professional web development and consulting Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:10:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stew http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/comment-page-1/#comment-24918 Stew Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:37:34 +0000 http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/#comment-24918 This posting is greatly appreciated. It has not only saved me a huge amount of time, it was a great learning exercise. Thanks! This posting is greatly appreciated. It has not only saved me a huge amount of time, it was a great learning exercise.

Thanks!

]]> By: Austin Moore http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/comment-page-1/#comment-23405 Austin Moore Fri, 15 May 2009 13:26:47 +0000 http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/#comment-23405 Thanks for the great write-up. The connection seems to work just fine. I'm having trouble with certain rake commands though, and I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced the same. Namely, the following rake tasks fail: $ rake db:test:prepare /opt/local/bin/osql: illegal option -- E /opt/local/bin/osql: illegal option -- E $ rake db:test:purge /opt/local/bin/osql: illegal option -- E /opt/local/bin/osql: illegal option -- E I assume db:test:prepare fails because it calls db:test:purge which fails. I'm not sure though why the 'illegal option' error is coming. Has anyone else seen this? Did you find a solution? Thanks in advance for any help. Thanks for the great write-up. The connection seems to work just fine.

I’m having trouble with certain rake commands though, and I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced the same. Namely, the following rake tasks fail:

$ rake db:test:prepare
/opt/local/bin/osql: illegal option — E
/opt/local/bin/osql: illegal option — E

$ rake db:test:purge
/opt/local/bin/osql: illegal option — E
/opt/local/bin/osql: illegal option — E

I assume db:test:prepare fails because it calls db:test:purge which fails. I’m not sure though why the ‘illegal option’ error is coming.

Has anyone else seen this? Did you find a solution? Thanks in advance for any help.

]]> By: Damien http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/comment-page-1/#comment-14720 Damien Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:44:07 +0000 http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/#comment-14720 DUDE! You rock. Thank you thank you thank you! I'd tried to get this working before using the Rails documentation, but (as you say) it was convoluted, and more importantly it didn't include the "for Leopard users" step. We can now properly integrate our legacy database with our new applications! No more DTS transformations and regular sftp processes. WOO! Next step.... kill windows. @doug: yes they are supposed to be swapped out - though things will work if you don't change them (it's just that for your second database and/or dsn, you'll have to select something else). @vabb_z: you can't be serious about Sybase! Brian's helped enough as it is and shouldn't be doing your leg work for you (IMO). Brian, thank you again - you've saved us hours (likely days or even weeks) of continued tedium. DUDE! You rock. Thank you thank you thank you! I’d tried to get this working before using the Rails documentation, but (as you say) it was convoluted, and more importantly it didn’t include the “for Leopard users” step. We can now properly integrate our legacy database with our new applications! No more DTS transformations and regular sftp processes. WOO! Next step…. kill windows.

@doug: yes they are supposed to be swapped out – though things will work if you don’t change them (it’s just that for your second database and/or dsn, you’ll have to select something else).

@vabb_z: you can’t be serious about Sybase! Brian’s helped enough as it is and shouldn’t be doing your leg work for you (IMO).

Brian, thank you again – you’ve saved us hours (likely days or even weeks) of continued tedium.

]]> By: Tom http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/comment-page-1/#comment-11638 Tom Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:11:43 +0000 http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/#comment-11638 Excellent! I would recommend updating the tutorial and dropping the Mac Ports requirement. I followed your tutorial without installing Mac Ports by just downloading the code from a browser rather than using the wget. I did run into one glitch related to Rails 2.1. I had to install the gem activerecord-sqlserver-adapter in order to get the require 'dbi' to work. Thanks again! You saved me a ton of time! Excellent! I would recommend updating the tutorial and dropping the Mac Ports requirement. I followed your tutorial without installing Mac Ports by just downloading the code from a browser rather than using the wget.

I did run into one glitch related to Rails 2.1. I had to install the gem activerecord-sqlserver-adapter in order to get the require ‘dbi’ to work.

Thanks again! You saved me a ton of time!

]]> By: Thom http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/comment-page-1/#comment-9258 Thom Fri, 23 May 2008 02:39:19 +0000 http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/#comment-9258 Nice article but I cannot get it to work for nothing. The closest I can get is Unable to connect to data source (0) SQLSTATE=08001 Thanks Thom Nice article but I cannot get it to work for nothing. The closest I can get is Unable to connect to data source (0) SQLSTATE=08001
Thanks
Thom

]]> By: doug livesey http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/comment-page-1/#comment-7816 doug livesey Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:50:06 +0000 http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/#comment-7816 Hi -- it seems there is a problem with FreeTDS on OSX Leopard -- details here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds/8992 Cheers, Doug. Hi — it seems there is a problem with FreeTDS on OSX Leopard — details here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds/8992

Cheers, Doug.

]]> By: doug livesey http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/comment-page-1/#comment-7814 doug livesey Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:28:00 +0000 http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/#comment-7814 Hi, Brian -- thanks for the article. Just a quickie -- are the values 'MY_SERVER_NAME', 'MY_DATABASE_NAME', and 'MY_DSN' supposed to be swapped out for more specific values? & thanks alot. Doug. Hi, Brian — thanks for the article. Just a quickie — are the values ‘MY_SERVER_NAME’, ‘MY_DATABASE_NAME’, and ‘MY_DSN’ supposed to be swapped out for more specific values?
& thanks alot. Doug.

]]> By: vabb_z http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/comment-page-1/#comment-3447 vabb_z Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:11:46 +0000 http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/#comment-3447 Can you please help me out while Connecting to Sybase Enterprise Server from Linux(SUSE/Sabayon) . Also an example of database.yml too..Thanks. Can you please help me out while Connecting to Sybase Enterprise Server from Linux(SUSE/Sabayon) . Also an example of database.yml too..Thanks.

]]> By: Steve Erickson http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/comment-page-1/#comment-384 Steve Erickson Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:40:12 +0000 http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/#comment-384 This is great. Thanks so much for putting this together. Would you mind posting an example Rails database.yml too? Thanks. This is great. Thanks so much for putting this together. Would you mind posting an example Rails database.yml too? Thanks.

]]> By: Christopher Warren http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/comment-page-1/#comment-381 Christopher Warren Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:00:31 +0000 http://www.napcsweb.com/blog/2007/03/08/15/#comment-381 Nice work, Brian. I'm sure I'm going to need this soon. Nice work, Brian. I’m sure I’m going to need this soon.

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