its exactly the same thing. if our server would have let us create that file dsn and we would have opened it, we probably would have seen these exact parameters. all a dsn-less connection allows you to do is to be able to create a dsn on the fly. a more proper name might be an "ad hoc dsn"
incidentally, where might i find the sapdb interface? i wanted to play with some stored procedures and views and was unable to find an interface. is this something i do through a sql statement? -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Benjamin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:35 PM To: Stephen "Gutknecht (SAPDB) Cc: Hawley, Darrell; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: DSN Less Connections Of course this gets you to the database. But, isn't this connecting with a...DSN? Matt On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 20:17, Stephen Gutknecht (SAPDB) wrote: > Hi Darrell, > > I use... > > "UID=myuser;PWD=*;ServerDB=MYDB;ServerNode=localhost;DRIVER={SAP DB 7.3};" > > Obviously replace the appropriate values. > > That should work for you. > > Stephen > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hawley, Darrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:36 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: DSN Less Connections > > > we are an ASP shop looking into open source options, starting with SAP DB. > one habit that we have gotten into (for better or worse) is writing dsn less > connection strings. i have seen references to people doing this, but i can't > seem to find the syntax. does anyone know the proper syntax for doing this > within ASP? > _______________________________________________ > sapdb.general mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general > _______________________________________________ > sapdb.general mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general -- Matt Benjamin The Linux Box 206 South Fifth Ave. Suite 150 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 tel. 734-761-4689 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309 pgr. 734-431-0118 _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
