How about connecting to MS Access from Linux?
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 05:56:29PM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Ian C.Sison wrote:
> ..
> > The best way for a linux client to connect to MS-SQL is through Perl
> > DBI, via it's DBD::ODBC module. For details, look up cpan.perl.org,
> > www.perl.com for what Perl, DBI, and DBD is.
>
> Nope, thats wrong. MS doesnt provide an ODBC client for Linux to talk to
> MS SQL (for obvious reasons). You can only use the ODBC driver manager if
> you have an ODBC driver.
>
> The best way to talk to MS SQL from Linux is to use DBD::Sybase with
> either the freely-available Sybase 11.0.3.3 or DBD::Sybase with the
> FreeTDS library.
>
> FreeTDS can talk to Sybase 4.2, Sybase 10, Sybase 11, MS SQL 6.5, and MS
> SQL 7.0 (TDS == Tabular Data Stream, the wire protocol used by Sybase and
> MS SQL).
>
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