>>I need to establish a connection to SQL 2008 R2 in VFP from the command window .,..
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>>Could you refresh my memory on getting a connection in VFP to a system or file dsn from the command window?
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>>I have a system dsn ITF that uses a trusted connection (perhaps VFP is not seen as such?) (SQL Server Native Client 10.0)
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>>nConnectionHandle = SQLCONNECT('ITF') gets a -1
>>I created a file DSN and put in in my VFP path ITFDSN but nConnectionHandle = SQLCONNECT('ITFDSN') gets a -1 as well
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>>Am I doing something boneheaded or does this stuff not allow trusted connection or ...
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>>TIA
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>What is the error?
>When you use any of SQL=* function you ALWAYS should check what the function returns and if it returns -1 check the error with AERROR function.
It was returning -1 but Hank taught me that ODBC DSN has to be explicitly created as 32 bit on a 64bit OS for VFP to be able to use it. Works fine now. I was confused because I had always done VFP before on a 32 bit box and never had a problem This time I was on Win7 64
(thanks for the reminder about the AERROR function. I forgot to look at that after I saw the -1)
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