I've never loved unixODBC. I'd go a long way to avoid it if I didn't _have_ to use it.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Peter Hircock via dbi-users < dbi-users@perl.org> wrote: > DBD::ODBC > > On Linux you can use FreeTDS & unixODBC , or Microsoft also has > Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server on Linux. > > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Kurt Jaeger" <dbi-us...@opsec.eu> > *To: *"Rob Dixon" <the.rob.di...@gmail.com> > *Cc: *"Tim Bunce" <dbi-users@perl.org> > *Sent: *Wednesday, 7 September, 2016 10:01:40 > *Subject: *Re: DBD for SQL Server > > Hi! > > > I'm wondering why there is no DBD module for Microsoft SQL Server? > > MS SQL is mostly-compatible with DBD::Sybase, as far as I know. > > http://search.cpan.org/~mewp/DBD-Sybase-1.15/Sybase.pm# > Using_DBD::Sybase_with_MS-SQL > > > Is it a technical impossibility, or is it just waiting to be written? > > FreeTDS does the wire format, so if someone wants to get down > to native stuff... > > http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/freetds/ > > -- > p...@opsec.eu +49 171 3101372 4 years to > go ! >
