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I am trying to connect to a Micros database (Sybase database for Micros registers). The database is installed on a Windows 7 pc and uses SQL Anywhere 11. My application needs to run in multiple restaurants, which means each restaurant or franchise may have different username/password to log in. For this reason, I stored the values in tables. The strange problem I have is that if I hard-code the username & password into a program to test the connection, I can connect and extract the data from the Micros database. When I change the code and use the username & password values from the table, I can't connect. I know the password in the table is correct because I copied it from the table into my code! Here's the code that doesn't work: cSQLDriver = 'SQL Anywhere 11' cConnStr = 'Driver=' + ALLTRIM(cSQLDriver) cConnStr = cConnStr + ';' + 'Servername=' + Alltrim(registerinfo.servername) cConnStr = cConnStr + ';' + 'UID=' + Alltrim(registerinfo.username) cConnStr = cConnStr + ';' + 'PWD=' + Alltrim(registerinfo.password) cConnStr = cConnStr + ';' + 'Database=' + Alltrim(storuser.poll_path) cConnStr = cConnStr + ';' + 'AutoStop=No' cConnStr = cConnStr + ';' + 'LOG=c:microsdatasql_log.txt' lnConn = SQLSTRINGCONNECT(cConnStr, .T.)Replacing only the lines for username & password with the following 2 lines, I can get connected: cConnStr = cConnStr + ';' + 'UID=dba' cConnStr = cConnStr + ';' + 'PWD=microspwd' I added a message box to display the entire connection string and both showed exactly the same thing. The log also shows the same username/password information for both attempts. Has anybody seen this before? Any ideas how I can get the connection to work using the field values? Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Karen |
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I'm not familiar with VFP, but the first thing I think of is "what kind of string is returned by 'Alltrim'"? Is it possible it's returning an ASCIIZ string with a trailing chr(0)? This is usually invisible when shown with a message box. Or perhaps is a unicode string? |
I suggest saving both connection strings into the file for careful examination with a binary viewer. There are no miracles ;).