Dan Coutu wrote:
>
> A few years back I had good luck in using the DBI interface along with
> the Sybase libraries to get direct access to MS SQL Server from a
> Digital UNIX box. SQL Server is actually based on Sybase code. It may
> have diverged enough now from the Sybase code that this trick no longer
> works, I have no idea. At any rate, the performance was much much
> better than that of an ODBC connection.
>
> Jamie Blondin wrote:
> >
> > Which reminds me...anyone here have experience in talking to MS SQL Server
> > 6.5 from a Linux box with Perl? (Without having to install some kind of
> > extra server application on a Windows box to get it to work) I haven't been
> > able to figure it out yet...Thanks
> >
> > -Jamie Blondin
> >
Ohh yeah, (a random synapse fires), that reminds me, there is a project
under way to develop a free client for accessing MS SQL Server and Sybase.
It's called FreeTDS ... Supposedly it will allow you to connect to
an MS SQL Server from unix. I haven't tried it yet though. If you
try it, I'd be interested to her how/if it works.
http://www.freetds.org/
-Matt
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