Sybase BCP vs MS SQL BCP

Question

I have a multi-database setup that I need to work with and both have their own bcp versions that do not act the same way. Plus both are in my %PATH% and the Sybase one is l

Answer 1

Keep in mind that MS SQL Server was identical to Sybase ASE back in 1994 (the called Sybase SQL Server), but after that, they slowly started to move apart. So the concept of BCP is still there and similar, but the details are different. For one thing, do not expect to be able to interchange client tools for these databases: Microsoft has made changes to the TDS protocol that makes it impossible to connect a client to the other vendor's databases.

If you've got a clash between to two executables with the same name, common solutions include (i) explicitly specifying the executable's pathname (ii) setting the right environment variables before calling one or the other executable (iii) renaming one of the executables. YMMV.