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>The following table defines all possible ODBC connection attributes for the <SPAN
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> ODBC driver.  Which ones you'll need depends on how you set yourself up.  They may appear in your connection string, or in <TT
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>odbc.ini</TT
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>Table 4-1. Connection attributes used only in connection strings</B
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>DSN</TT
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><TD
>A valid DSN entry</TD
><TD
>none</TD
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>The <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>DSN</TT
> to which <SPAN
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> should connect. <SPAN
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>FreeTDS</SPAN
> will search <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>odbc.ini</TT
> for entry.  It lets you specify a connection as for <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SQLConnect</CODE
>, but using <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SQLDriverConnect</CODE
>.   Do not use <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>Servername</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>DSN</TT
> together. </TD
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>UID</TT
></TD
><TD
>Any valid username</TD
><TD
>none</TD
><TD
>The username to be used when connecting.  To use domain authentication, specify the domain using the format  <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>domain\username</I
></TT
>.</TD
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>PWD</TT
></TD
><TD
>Any</TD
><TD
>empty</TD
><TD
>The password to be used when connecting. </TD
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>WSID</TT
></TD
><TD
>Any</TD
><TD
>Computer name</TD
><TD
>The name of the local computer, sent to server.   Can be specified only for a DSN-less connection.</TD
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>Table 4-2. Connection attributes that may appear in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>odbc.ini</TT
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>Servername</TT
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>A valid <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>freetds.conf</TT
> server section</TD
><TD
>none</TD
><TD
>A <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>freetds.conf</TT
> servername, not a hostname as known to DNS. If you want to use ODBC-only configuration, use  <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>Server</TT
> instead.</TD
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>Server</TT
></TD
><TD
>A server name or (ip) address</TD
><TD
>none</TD
><TD
>Hostname of a server. Used in an ODBC-only configuration. To specify a Microsoft SQL Server instance, use the form <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>server\instance</TT
>.  </TD
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>Port</TT
></TD
><TD
>Any TCP port</TD
><TD
>Depends on the TDS version specified with <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>configure</B
></TD
><TD
>The TCP port  where the servername is listening.  </TD
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>TDS_Version</TT
></TD
><TD
>Any valid protocol version</TD
><TD
>Depends on the TDS version specified with <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>configure</B
></TD
><TD
>TDS protocol version to use (e.g., 5.0, 7.0).</TD
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>ClientCharset</TT
></TD
><TD
>A name recognized by the iconv library linked to FreeTDS.  Corresponds to <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>client charset</TT
> in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>freetds.conf</TT
>.</TD
><TD
>ISO 8859-1</TD
><TD
>Character set (encoding) used by the client.</TD
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><TD
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>APP</TT
></TD
><TD
>Free form text, up to 30 characters.  </TD
><TD
>none</TD
><TD
>Application name.  Identifies the connecting application to the server.  </TD
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><TD
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>LANGUAGE</TT
></TD
><TD
>Any</TD
><TD
>us_english</TD
><TD
>(Human) language the server should use for error messages.</TD
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><TD
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>Address</TT
></TD
><TD
>Any</TD
><TD
>none</TD
><TD
>IP address of the servername.  Useful if you want to specify a server by address,  rather than by name.  The format is <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>ip,port</I
></TT
>  or simply <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>ip</I
></TT
> in standard dotted-decimal notation.   </TD
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><TD
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>Database</TT
></TD
><TD
>Any</TD
><TD
>none</TD
><TD
>Specify which database you want to access.  If the database does not exist or the user lacks permission to access it,  the connection will fail.</TD
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><TD
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>TextSize</TT
></TD
><TD
>Any</TD
><TD
>Server-dependent</TD
><TD
>Maximum size returned from server for blobs.</TD
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><TD
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>PacketSize</TT
></TD
><TD
>Any</TD
><TD
>Server-dependent</TD
><TD
>Size of packets to server.  Some users saw some performance gain by increasing this value.  Normally you shouldn't set it.  </TD
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><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>Trusted_Connection</TT
></TD
><TD
>Yes/No</TD
><TD
>No</TD
><TD
>Use your current account instead of <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>UID</TT
>/<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>PWD</TT
> attributes.  This option require SSPI or Kerberos and supersedes any <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>UID</TT
>/<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>PWD</TT
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