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On this point, how about trying DBD::ODBC?

Oops! Sorry. The important point I intended to make in my original post (but didn't) is that I did, indeed, try DBD::ODBC first and discovered it doesn't work with the SearchServer 5.3 ODBC driver. Apparently, SearchServer only supports ODBC 1.0. Crazy, huh?

Here's a little test script that demonstrates the issue (I think):

C:\>nl -ba -w 2 -s " " dbd-odbc.pl
 1 #!C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe
 2
 3 use strict;
 4 use warnings;
 5 use DBI;
 6
 7 @ARGV == 2 or die "Usage: perl $0 <DSN> <ODBC Version>\n";
 8
 9 my $dsn = shift;
10 my $ver = shift;
11
12 my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$dsn", undef, undef, {
13     PrintError   => 0,
14     RaiseError   => 1,
15     odbc_version => $ver,
16 });
17
18 $dbh->disconnect;
19
20 exit 0;
21
22 __END__

C:\>db -d TESTDSN "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TABLES"
COUNT(*)
445

C:\>perl dbd-odbc.pl TESTDSN 1
DBI connect('TESTDSN','',...) failed: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager]
+ Invalid argument value (SQL-HY024)(DBD: db_login/SQLSetEnvAttr err=-
+1) at dbd-odbc.pl line 12

C:\>perl dbd-odbc.pl TESTDSN 2
DBI connect('TESTDSN','',...) failed: [Hummingbird][SearchServer]Drive
+r not capable (SQL-S1C00)(DBD: dbd_db_login/SQLSetConnectOption err=-
+1) at dbd-odbc.pl line 12

C:\>perl dbd-odbc.pl TESTDSN 3
DBI connect('TESTDSN','',...) failed: [Hummingbird][SearchServer]Drive
+r not capable (SQL-HYC00)(DBD: dbd_db_login/SQLSetConnectOption err=-
+1) at dbd-odbc.pl line 12

C:\>
[download]

(The nl and db commands are handy MKS Toolkit utilities.)

This was the motive for my inquiry. I'm wondering if anyone has used Perl with SearchServer and, in particular, managed to access SearchServer tables via ODBC using either Win32::ODBC or DBD::ODBC.

Jim

In reply to Re^2: Querying eDOCS SearchServer Full-Text Search Engine From Perl by Jim
in thread Querying eDOCS SearchServer Full-Text Search Engine From Perl by Jim

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