INF: Maximum Size of Servername Parameter to dbopen()

• Microsoft SQL Server Programmer's Toolkit, version 4.2

SUMMARY

The maximum length of a server name that can be specified when calling the DB-Library dbopen() function is thirty characters. If a longer string is specified as the servername argument, only the first thirty characters will be used when attempting to resolve the name and connect to SQL Server.

MORE INFORMATION

Note that the Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path to the network resource can be much longer than thirty characters. The thirty character limit only exists on the server name passed to dbopen(), NOT the pipe or network resource name.

Additional query words: dblib

Keywords          : kbprg SSrvDB_Lib SSrvProg 
Version           : 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.2
Platform          : MS-DOS OS/2 WINDOWS 
Issue type        : 

Last Reviewed: March 16, 1999