FreeTDS problem connecting to SQL Server on Mac (Unexpected EOF from the server)

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gugguson picture gugguson · Aug 7, 2011 · Viewed 15.6k times · Source

I have setup FreeTDS to connect to SQL Server database. When I try to open TSQL in terminal on Mac (lion) I get this error:

locale is "en_US.UTF-8"
locale charset is "UTF-8"
using default charset "UTF-8"
Error 20017 (severity 9):
    Unexpected EOF from the server
    OS error 36, "Operation now in progress"
Error 20002 (severity 9):
    Adaptive Server connection failed
There was a problem connecting to the server

Does anybody have a clue what could be causing this?

Answer

gabouy picture gabouy · Aug 13, 2011

I think I got it, it's the TDS configured version, I had 5.0, which caused the error

Try running tsql -C to check what version are you using, and then you can invoke tsql overriding the version with:

TDSVER=7.0 tsql -H hostname -p port -U domain\\\username -P password

and it worked!

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