I think you were on the right track, though.

I'm assuming "SQL Server" refers to Microsoft SQL Server?

Have you come across this in your searches?
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=392385

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Kelly Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> AH!!!  I'm a dork!  Disregard my comment.
>
> On Jul 28, 2010, at 10:19 PM, "John F. Eldredge" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Notice, however, that he wants to connect to SQL Server, not MySQL.  There 
>> are likely to be some differences.
>>
>> -------Original Email-------
>> Subject :Re: [nlug] Perl and SQL Server
>> From  :mailto:[email protected]
>> Date  :Wed Jul 28 22:14:25 America/Chicago 2010
>>
>>
>> Are these programs that you're going to write?
>>
>> You shouldn't need to pay for software to do this libdbd should work fine.  
>> There's all kinds of examples on the web of perl code that talks to mysql 
>> with freely available drivers.  Perhaps if you explain a little more what 
>> these programs do...
>>
>> http://sql-info.de/mysql/examples/Perl-DBI-examples.html
>>
>> -K
>>
>> On Jul 28, 2010, at 9:54 PM, Paul Boniol wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to figure out a relatively easy to set up, low-cost/free way for 
>>> Perl programs on Linux to access a SQL Server database.
>>>
>>> Running Perl programs on Windows, everything uses ODBC since is freely 
>>> available and easy to set up in the OS.
>>>
>>> Easysoft had popped up a the top of my search ... They hide the price well. 
>>>  At the current exchange rate it's around $1,300.  Let's just say that's 
>>> definitely the wrong neighborhood.  (From comments I read elsewhere, it 
>>> sounds like there's a server and client piece which wouldn't work either 
>>> since I don't manage the server.)
>>>
>>> FreeTDS sounds good, but even the FAQ says it is difficult to set up and 
>>> there isn't a package (at least not in my distro's repositories).
>>>
>>> I've got DBVisualizer-6.5.12 which uses the jTDS driver (jdbc) to access 
>>> the DB and is running fine on Linux.  I've looked into using it a bit, but 
>>> to use it with Perl it sounded rather complicated to set up as well.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions on what direction I should focus my time?
>>>
>>> Paul Boniol
>>>
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