ASE ODBC Driver and OLE DB Provider Migration Technical - Sybase

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ASE ODBC Driver/OLE DB Provider Connection Properties
The format used to describe the connection properties includes the name of the property as used in the ODBC
Driver administrator, followed by the actual property name used in connection strings, surrounded in square brackets.
Example:
Enable High Availability [hasession/HASession]: [Descriptive text explaining the parameter]. Default [is|=] value.
The connection property name isn’t case sensitive. Lower case is equivalent to the conventional upper case for
initial letter of each word in the property. Words must be concatenated when the property is used in the connection
string for ODBC driver connection strings. The same goes with OLE DB Provider connection properties, unless you use
the generic properties such as “Initial Catalog”, “User ID”, etc.
Example ODBC Connection strings:
AseConnectionString = “{Driver = Adaptive Server Enterprise};UID=sa;PWD=xxx;Database=testdb;Server=asehost;
Port=5000;AnsiNull=1;UseCursor=1;DynamicPrepare=1;…..”
Another way to do this:
AseConnectionString = “{Driver = Adaptive Server Enterprise};uid=sa;pwd=xxx;database=testdb;server=asehost;
port=5000;ansinull=1;usecursor=1;dynamicprepare=1;…..”
Also, you can replace {Driver=…} with DSN=ase_DSN and include other properties to over-ride DSN settings.
Example OLE DB Provider Connection strings:
OleDbConnectionString = “Provider=ASEOLEDB;Server=aseHost;Port=5000;Initial Catalog=testdb;User
ID=sa;Password=xxx….”
OleDbConnectionString = “Provider=ASEOLEDB;Data Source=ase1502;User ID=sa;….”
The Sybase ASE Data Source Administrator (sybdrvadm.exe is a tool provided in the SDK under %SYBASE%\
DataAccess\bin or %SYBASE%\DataAccess64\bin for Winx64) so you can create OLE DB Data Sources. These are stored
in this same location by default as a text file with name of the Data Source followed by the extension “sod”. The Data
Source name without the “sod” extension is used in the “Data Source” connection property.