.\" cf. groff_mdoc
.Dd March 25, 2015
.Os FreeTDS 1.3.17
.Dt BSQLODBC FreeTDS "FreeTDS Reference Manual"
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.Sh NAME
.Nm bsqlodbc
.Nd batch SQL script processor using ODBC
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Pp
.Nm
.Op Fl hqv
.Op Fl U Ar username
.Op Fl P Ar password
.Op Fl S Ar server
.Op Fl D Ar database
.Op Fl i Ar input_file
.Op Fl o Ar output_file
.Op Fl e Ar error_file
.Op Fl t Ar field_term
.Op Fl V Ar odbc_version
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Pp
.Nm
is a utility program distributed with FreeTDS.
.Pp
.Nm
is a non-interactive equivalent of the 
.Ql isql
utility programs distributed by Sybase and Microsoft. Like them, 
.Nm
uses the command 
.Ql go
on a line by itself as a separator between batches. The last
batch need not be followed by 
.Ql go .
.Pp
.Nm
makes use of the ODBC API provided by FreeTDS. This
API is of course also available to application developers.
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.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl U Ar username
Database server login name.
.It Fl P Ar password
Database server password.
.It Fl S Ar server
Database server to which to connect.
.It Fl D Ar database
Database to use.
.It Fl i Ar input_file
Name of script file, containing SQL.
.It Fl o Ar output_file
Name of output file, holding result data.
.It Fl e Ar error_file
Name of file for errors.
.It Fl t Ar field_term
Specifies the field terminator. Default is two spaces (
.Ql \ \ 
.Ns ).
Recognized escape sequences are tab (
.Ql \et
.Ns ), 
carriage return (
.Ql \er
.Ns ), 
newline (
.Ql \en
.Ns ),
and backslash (
.Ql \e\e
.Ns ).
.It Fl h
Print column headers with the data to the same file.
.It Fl q 
Do not print column metadata, return status, or rowcount. Overrides
.Fl h .
.It Fl v
Verbose mode, for more information about the ODBC interaction.
This also reports the result set metadata, including and return code. All
verbose data are written to standard error (or 
.Fl e Ns ),
so as not to interfere with the data stream.
.It Fl V Ar odbc_version
Specify ODBC version (2 or 3).
.El
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.Sh NOTES
.Pp
.Nm
is a filter; it reads from standard input, writes to standard output,
and writes errors to standard error. The
.Fl i ,
.Fl o ,
and
.Fl e
options override these defaults.
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Nm
exits 0 on success, and >0 if the server cannot process the query.
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.Sh HISTORY
.Nm
first appeared in FreeTDS 0.65.
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.Sh AUTHORS
The 
.Nm
utility was written by 
.An James K. Lowden Aq jklowden@freetds.org .