December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1560 pages
40h 44m
English
The odbcping utility is a good diagnostic tool that allows you to test a client machine's ODBC connectivity to your database server. It uses this syntax:
odbcping { -Sserver_name | -Ddata_source }
Unlike makepipe and readpipe, odbcping runs only on the client. You can use odbcping whenever you need to verify that a client's ODBC connectivity is properly configured. You can also incorporate the use of odbcping as part of an installation procedure.
You can run odbcping in two ways. You can execute odbcping-Sserver_name to test a client's direct connectivity to SQL Server. You can also run odbcping-Ddata_source to use the specified data source to connect to SQL Server. In either case, if successful, odbcping displays the version of SQL ...
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