[Zope] How to connect to Sybase using ZSybaseDA

[Alexander Staubo]

Remember that server name != host name. Sybase distinguishes between the
identifier of the database server and the machine running the server.
Afaik, there's no way to tell ctsybase the host name, but I could be
wrong there. Also note that the server name is case sensitive, so
"Turtle" != "turtle".

You might try isql:

	isql -U qawila1 -P figtree -S turtle

...should verify whether the parameters are correct as typed. If you
find that you need to type:

	isql -U qawila1 -P figtree -S mysybase -H turtle

...which means "turtle" is the host name, and "mysybase" is the server
name, then the host name is definitely part of the equation.

-- 
Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
"QED?" said Russell.
"It's Latin," said Morgan. "It means, So there you bastard."
--Robert Rankin, _Nostramadus Ate My Hamster_

>-----Original Message-----
>From: A J Wilson [mailto:ajwilson@ezy.net.au]
>Sent: 26. juli 1999 03:29
>To: Alexander Staubo; Zope Mailing List (E-mail)
>Subject: Re: [Zope] How to connect to Sybase using ZSybaseDA
>
>
>I tried to connect manually using the script suggested below.  
>The output is
>shown below.  I would appreciate if someone could interprete 
>it for me and
>advise how I might fix the problem.
>
>Many Thanks
>Austin
>
>Python 1.5.1 (#10, Jul 25 1999, 07:21:22)  [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2
>Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>>> import ctsybase
>>>> c = ctsybase.ctsybase({'user': 'qawila1', 'password': 'figtree',
>'server': 'turtle'})
>Traceback (innermost last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>SybaseError: ['failed to connect to server', ('client', 4, 84083715,
>'ct_connect(): network packet layer:
>internal net library error: Specified server name attribute 
>could not be
>found', 0, '', 0, 'ZZZZZ')]
>>>>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Alexander Staubo <alex@mop.no>
>To: Zope Mailing List (E-mail) <zope@zope.org>; 'A J Wilson'
><ajwilson@ezy.net.au>
>Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 8:31 AM
>Subject: RE: [Zope] How to connect to Sybase using ZSybaseDA
>
>
>> Note that ZSybaseDA has a bug that keeps it from publishing errors
>> correctly. Check the line number given in the traceback. 
>Verify that you
>> login ID has access to the database and table.
>>
>> You can test this manually thus (replace user name, 
>password, server and
>> database with real values):
>>
>> import ctsybase
>> c = ctsybase.ctsybase({'user': 'bob', 'password': 'bob',
>> 'server': 'MYSYB'})
>> c.execute('use my_database')
>>
>> which should go through okay if it works, give you a (hopefully)
>> human-readable error response if not.
>>
>> -- Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
>> "Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom smashers and a
>> beautiful
>> girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a 
>chimpanzee, and I
>> care
>> not who writes the nation's laws." --S. J. Perelman
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: A J Wilson [mailto:ajwilson@ezy.net.au]
>> Sent: 25. juli 1999 22:33
>> To: zope@zope.org
>> Cc: rossl@med.usyd.edu.au
>> Subject: Re: [Zope] How to connect to Sybase using ZSybaseDA
>>
>>
>> I have a Sybase database which I can access through isql, MSAccess,
>> Sybase Central etc.  When I tried to access it using the 
>ZSybaseDA using
>> the connection string in the form [dbusername] [password] 
>[machinename]
>> [databasename] I get an error saying "Invalid connection 
>string:".  Any
>> other suggestions.
>>
>> Regards
>> Austin
>>
>>
>> >From: rossl@med.usyd.edu.au
>> >Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:14:06 -0700
>> >To: zope@zope.org
>> >Subject: Re:  [Zope] How to connect to Sybase using ZSybaseDA
>> >
>> >try
>> >[dbusername] [password] [machinename] [databasename]
>> >
>> >eg
>> >
>> >bob bobspass redhat1 zopestuff
>> >
>> >(Of course, you need to use the sybase utilities to make database
>> zopestuff and accessible by bob using bobspass)
>> >
>>  ><003001bed623$61e130a0$0202a8c-@lalaland.net.au> wrote:
>> o>riginal article:http://www.egroups.com/group/zope/?start=8450
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I managed to compile the ZSybaseDA under Redhat 5.1.  Now 
>I need help
>> to connect to the database.  Zope is running on the same machine as
>> >Sybase ASE.  Could someone please tell me the format for 
>the Database
>> Connection String?
>