I'm working on a Solaris box, trying to connect to a remote SQL Server 7 running on a WinNT box.

I've installed the following on my Solaris box:

No errors during install. I am able to use the 'tsql' tool found in the bin dir of freeTDS to connect to my remote MS SQL Sever.

However, I can't seem to get DBD::Sybase to work. I've gotten a number of software error messages to display, when I try using the following CGI code:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
use DBI;

my $DB_Server = "DBServer";
my $DB_User = "gues";
my $DB_Pass = "test";

print "DB_Server:[$DB_Server] DB_User:[$DB_User] DB_Pass:[$DB_Pass]";

BEGIN { $ENV{SYBASE} = '/usr/local/freetds/'; }

my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Sybase:server=$DB_Server", $DB_User, $DB_P
+ass, {PrintError => 0});

die "Unable for connect to server $DBI::errstr"
    unless $dbh;

my $rc;
my $sth;

$sth = $dbh->prepare("select \@\@servername");
if($sth->execute) {
    while(@dat = $sth->fetchrow) {
        print "@dat\n";
    }
}

$dbh->disconnect();

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The most recent error message was:
DBD::Sybase initialisation failed: Had to create DBD::Sybase::dr::imp_data_size unexpectedly at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris/DBI.pm line 713. (in cleanup) dbih_getcom handle DBI::dr=HASH(0xa34fc8) is not a DBI handle (has no magic) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris/DBI.pm line 713. (in cleanup) dbih_getcom handle DBI::dr=HASH(0xa34fc8) is not a DBI handle (has no magic) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris/DBI.pm line 537. at /var/apache/htdocs/test.cgi line 14

Do I have an error with DBD::Sybase? Should I try an earlier version? Could there be a missing link? or ENV setting? Any thoughts? Feedback? Assistance?

Thanks!

In reply to DBD::Sybase Woes by Anonymous Monk

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