[DB-SIG] Re: DSNless connections (w/ mxODBC or others)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at lemburg.com
Mon Aug 18 11:10:21 EDT 2003


M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Greg Brunet wrote:
> 
>> Found something that works - don't know how efficient it is!  This page:
>> http://www.basic-ultradev.com/articles/dsnlesscoldfusion/index.asp gives
>> examples for DSN-less connections to various data sources (in Cold
>> Fusion - but it seems to work for me).  Anyway, this is what worked:
 >>
>>>>> db = mx.ODBC.Windows.DriverConnect('Driver={SQL
>>
>>
>> Server};server=localhost;Database=VehSales;UID=myuser;PWD=mypwd;')
>>
>> NOTE: there's a space in 'Driver={SQL Server};...'
> 
> Here's the official documentation for this:
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odbc/htm/odch21dpr_3.asp 
> 
> (scroll down to the comments section).

... and this is a list of all the keywords you can use with
MS SQL Server in the connection string:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odbcsql/od_odbc_d_4x4k.asp

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