sqlcmd won't execute - Claims Native Client not installed properly

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Published on 2011-02-23T02:34:35Z Indexed on 2012/10/13 3:39 UTC
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I'm trying to use sqlcmd to execute some SQL scripts.

Using a test command with a simple query like:

sqlcmd -S HOSTNAME -d MYDATABASE -Q 'SELECT Names FROM Customers'

sqlcmd does not appear to make any attempt to connect to the server as it displays this message:

Sqlcmd: Error: Connection failure. SQL Native Client is not installed correctly. To correct this, run SQL Server Setup.

The native client was presumably installed as part of the SQL Server setup and likely correctly. I actually get this message on any machine with SQL server installed trying to use sqlcmd so it's not a matter of the installation being corrupt.

Unfortunately the message really tells me nothing about the problem so I don't know what the real issue is. I know the SQL Native client is working properly since a vbscript was able to execute SQL queries against the database.

Is there some additional configuration needed to use sqlcmd?

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