------ art_9126_13121798.1212464023522 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Ack! Just figured out that the problem happens outside of Ruby, too. Once I realized I could reproduce the issue with isql, I realized I was missing the FREETDSCONF environment variable. D'oh! ------ art_9126_13121798.1212464023522--