Read from the server failed when trying to connect to sql-azure from tsql

Question

I\'m trying to connect to SQL-Azure from Ubuntu 12.04.

I\'ve compiled freeTds-0.91 with openssl and libiconf

tsql -H XXXXXXXX.database.windows.net -U         


        

Answer 1

in freetds.conf

[servername] 
host = ipAddress
port = 1433
tds version = 8.0

for checking freetds connection
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$tsql -S servername -U username 
password