perlquestion perlraj <p>Hi I have a problem with connecting MSSQL Server using FreeTDS<br>I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS<br>I have installed unixODBC in the path /usr/local/unixODBC and freeTDS in /usr/local/freeTDS and got all the files like odbc.ini, odbcinst.ini and freetds.conf in the path /etc<br>i am trying to connect with DNS less connection following the instructions from the link</p> <a href=http://www.freetds.org/userguide/dsnless.htm> www.freetds.org/userguide/dsnless.htm</a> <p>I am getting the error <code>[unixODBC][FreeTDS][SQL Server] Unable to connect to data source (SQL-08001)</code></p> <code> Driver config file odbcinst.ini [FreeTDS] Driver=/usr/local/freetds/lib/libtdsodbc.so Setup=/usr/local/freetds/lib/libtdsodbc.so Threading=0 FileUsage=1 DontDLClose=1 </code> <code> Perl Program #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use DBI; $dsn = "dbi:ODBC:DRIVER={FreeTDS};Server=$server;database=$database;"; $dbh = DBI->connect("$dsn","$user","$password") or die "\n$DBI::errstr\n"; </code>