On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Marc Schwartz wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 17:52 -0400, Armstrong, Whit wrote: > > Anyone out there using Linux RODBC and unixODBC to connect to a > > Microsoft SQL server? > > > > If possible can someone post a sample .odbc.ini file? > > > > I saw a few discussions on the archives a few years ago, but no config > > file details were available. > > > > Thanks, > > Whit > > Whit, > > Do you have a Linux ODBC driver for SQL Server? unixODBC is simply the > driver manager, not the driver itself. > > MS does not offer (not surprisingly) an ODBC driver for Unix/Linux. > There are resources available however and these might be helpful: > > http://www.sommarskog.se/mssql/unix.html > > Note that Easysoft provides (at a cost) an ODBC-ODBC bridge for > Unix/Linux platforms which supports ODBC connections to SQL Server: > > http://www.easysoft.com/products/data_access/odbc_odbc_bridge/index.html
Several people have successfully used that, from the earliest days of RODBC: I believe it was part of Michael Lapsley's motivation to write RODBC. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.