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- From: gravatt@next02wor.wam.umd.edu (Robert Howerton Gravatt)
- Subject: Using Sybase SQL
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.213021.18871@wam.umd.edu>
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- Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:30:21 GMT
- Lines: 52
-
- Hi:
-
- I recently posted a request for help on Sybase and have gotten a litte
- further, but I am still in trouble.
-
- 1) The Sybase that I am using is version 4.0.2 shipped with NeXTStep 2.x
- as /NextLibrary/Packages/ThirdParty.orig/Sybase_DB-Library.pkg, not with
- 1.0 as I earlier reported.
-
- 2) Upon my efforts and upon review of Doug Clapp's "The NeXT Bible", I
- have noticed that the "Sybase" which was shipped with NeXTStep v 1.0 was
- Sybase v. 4.0. However, version 4.0 of "Sybase" has files that version
- 4.0.2 does not. Version 4.0.2 looks like:
-
- next12csc> pwd
- /afs/.Automount/nd.edu/next_mach30/usr/sybase
- next12csc> ls -l
- total 23
- drwxr-xr-x 2 sybase 2048 Oct 12 1990 bin/
- drwxrwxrwx 2 sybase 2048 Oct 10 1990 database/
- drwxr-xr-x 3 sybase 6144 Oct 12 1990 doc/
- drwxr-xr-x 2 sybase 2048 Oct 12 1990 include/
- drwxr-xr-x 3 sybase 2048 Oct 12 1990 install/
- -rw-rw-rw- 1 sybase 545 Jan 3 1990 interfaces
- drwxr-xr-x 2 sybase 2048 Nov 13 14:46 lib/
- drwxr-xr-x 2 sybase 2048 Oct 12 1990 msgs/
- drwxr-xr-x 3 sybase 2048 Oct 12 1990 sample/
- drwxr-xr-x 2 sybase 2048 Oct 12 1990 scripts/
-
- It does not however have any of the executatbles in /usr/sybase/intall
- that v. 4.0 does such as intallserver and startserver. Moreover the
- "samples" in .../sample which rely upon things in .../install that aren't
- there.
-
- My questions are:
-
- A) Is the "Sybase" 4.0.2 the whole enchilata or some subpart that does
- not include SQL Server but only DB-Library ?
-
- B) What is an SQL "server" anyway ?
-
- C) Assuming that you do not have write permission to /usr/sybase and wish
- to keep your own personal interfaces file in your home directory, what do
- you need to have in this file and how do you set the enviroment variables
- etc. so you don't get:
-
- Operating-system error:
- Connection refused
- DB-Library: Unable to connect: SQL Server is unavailable or does not
- exist.
-
-
-