On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 15:16, Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
> Michael,
> 
>    Actually, I have and I do understand the FreeTDS requirements for the
> module.  I'm looking for some real world feed back from those who might be
> using it or have tried it.  As you may have run into, certain cruicial
> points are often mentioned only as a "oh, by the way" in documention indexes
> or mailing lists :)

:-)

You may want to join the FreeTDS mailing list, and ask there.

Known issues are placeholders (they don't work), LongReadLen attribute
doesn't work (use "set textsize xxx" instead) (actually almost none of
the handle attributes work correctly, because this is implemented via
the ct_options() API call, and that call isn't implemented [or at least
not implemented correctly] by freetds.

Michael


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Peppler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:07 PM
> To: Karyn Ulriksen
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Using DBD::Sybase to talk to MS SQL
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 14:40, Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
> > I came across this twice in one day from unrelated sources after never
> > hearing about it before.  Considering the <sarcasm>great scalability of
> > DBI::Proxy </sarcasm>, I am interested in feedback on anybody using
> > DBD::Sybase on a linux box to talk to an MS SQL server. 
> > 
> > Are there any drawbacks?
> > Does it thread?
> > Do I just configure an ODBC DSN on the SQL server to speak to it from the
> > DBD::Sybase module?
> 
> No.
> 
> You need to build the FreeTDS libraries (A free reimplementation of the
> Sybase Open Client API - http://www.freetds.org), and then build
> DBD::Sybase against these libraries.
> 
> I suggest that you amble over to the FreeTDS site and read their
> documentation.
> 
> Michael
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> Michael Peppler                              Data Migrations, Inc.
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