Comments on: How to install Sybase’s ODBC driver on Ubuntu Linux for ASE/IQ/Replication Server/SQL Anywhere/etc

By: How to install Sybase’s ODBC driver on Ubuntu Linux 8.10 for ASE/IQ/Replication Server/SQL Anywhere/etc | The Agile Radar

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:05:46 +0000

[...] someone else in your sphere is solving almost the same problem. Jason posted yesterday about installing ODBC on Ubuntu for Sybase which was one of the challenges we had as part of my previous post about getting Sybase's ODBC/JDBC [...]

By: Jason L. Froebe

Jason L. Froebe — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:41:33 +0000

To be honest, for the applications I’ve run into, I have yet to see real difference in performance between CT-LIB, ODBC or JDBC in the driver layer. Most of the bottlenecks tended to be with:

1 Poor queries (no covering indexes or just bad SQL coding)
2 Application design
3 Sybase ASE misconfiguration
4 OS misconfiguration

Way way down the list would be the connection drivers. That’s not to say that there aren’t issues with the various drivers and abstraction layers though.

Jason

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:11:21 +0000

Hello Jason,

Thank you!

I found the missing lib in the package: libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-24_i386.deb
after installing this package all my dependencies problems were solved and I was able to use the Sybase ODBC driver.

It is of course not great to have this dependency, but the other options are using the native ct-lib (have to write a driver myself) or use the FreeTDS ODBC drivers.

What are you experiences with using CT-lib, vs the Sybase ODBC? -I mean performance wise.

cheers!

By: Jason L Froebe

Jason L Froebe — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:09:06 +0000

Hi Danny,

With Ubuntu after 8.10, you will need to install libstdc++5 as Sybase’s ODBC driver is built with the older library.

sudo aptitude install libstdc++5

let me know if it helps

Jason

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:01:38 +0000

I am trying to setup unixODBC and the Sybase ODBC drivers that ships with the Open Client 15.0 32-bit (RH) on a Ubuntu 10.4 installation.

All works fine until the actual test:
usr/bin/isql TEST sa **** -v
[01000][unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can’t open lib ‘/opt/sybase/DataAccess/ODBC/lib/libsybdrvodb.so’ : file not found
[ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect

and I get this error. Of course the file exists, but;

ldd /opt/sybase/DataAccess/ODBC/lib/libsybdrvodb.so
linux-gate.so.1 => (0x003b6000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0x001f5000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0x009e2000)
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 => not found
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0x00edc000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0x001f9000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00e67000)

so for some reason the libstdc++-lib6.2-2.so3 is not found.

Have you had any luck installing the sybase ODBC drivers on Ubuntu 10.4? would you have any clues of what lib I need to update/install?

By: Toshiba Driver

Toshiba Driver — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:26:15 +0000

good article,can’t hardly wait for more article.. thanks

By: David

David — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:12:12 +0000

BTW I’m the one running PHP on Ubuntu, and it is working, along with Apache… Just need to be able to connect to the Sybase server

By: Jason L Froebe

Jason L Froebe — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:44:13 +0000

Well, there isn’t a direct link. You need to download the Software Development Kit.. which you can only get from Sybase http://www.sybase.com/linux

By: Jason L Froebe

Jason L Froebe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:50:41 +0000

Nope, the ODBC drivers from Sybase are native Linux binaries.

By: Jason L Froebe

Jason L Froebe — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:48:31 +0000

When you run the Sybase setup (in GUI mode “setup” or console mode “setup -console”), you can choose where to install the Sybase software. In this case, I chose /opt/sybase.

By: Jason L Froebe

Jason L Froebe — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:44:01 +0000

Wayne Allen ran into the same problem as I did with the Sybase ODBC drivers.

By: How to install Sybase’s ODBC driver on Ubuntu Linux 8.10 for ASE/IQ/Replication Server/SQL Anywhere/etc - Wayne Allen's Weblog

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:59:35 +0000

By: Jason L Froebe

Jason L Froebe — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:29:40 +0000

To test the dsn, you can use unixODBC’s isql:

% /usr/bin/isql dbadev1