Re: Oracle is included - how about Sybase?

2014-12-03 Thread Matthew Persico
But thanks for the offer. On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Matthew Persico wrote: > We've tried FreeTDS in the past at my current gig - not reliable. > > We're connecting to a boatload of Sybase databases from UNIX boxes - I'm > trying to distribute the work over underutilized Windows boxes witho

Re: Oracle is included - how about Sybase?

2014-12-03 Thread Matthew Persico
We've tried FreeTDS in the past at my current gig - not reliable. We're connecting to a boatload of Sybase databases from UNIX boxes - I'm trying to distribute the work over underutilized Windows boxes without rewriting the world, so ODBC in this case is not applicable. On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:3

Re: Oracle is included - how about Sybase?

2014-12-03 Thread Matthew Persico
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:04 PM, kmx wrote: > On 1.12.2014 16:23, Matthew Persico wrote: > >> I see that DBD::Oracle is now included in Strawberry. I'd like to see >> DBD::Sybase also included. >> > > Well, I have included Oracle DB driver as it is IMO commercial DB No.1. I > am not sure how popul

Re: Oracle is included - how about Sybase?

2014-12-03 Thread Daniel Kasak
There are a few options for Sybase: http://www.freetds.org/userguide/perl.htm I use FreeTDS + unixODBC + DBD::ODBC for SQL Server on Linux. If you're after cross-platform support, I recommend using DBD::ODBC - in particular because Windows drivers will almost always be ODBC drivers, meaning you on

Re: Oracle is included - how about Sybase?

2014-12-03 Thread Matthew Persico
On Wednesday, December 3, 2014, kmx wrote: > On 1.12.2014 16:23, Matthew Persico wrote: > >> I see that DBD::Oracle is now included in Strawberry. I'd like to see >> DBD::Sybase also included. >> > > Well, I have included Oracle DB driver as it is IMO commercial DB No.1. I > am not sure how popul

Re: Oracle is included - how about Sybase?

2014-12-03 Thread kmx
On 1.12.2014 16:23, Matthew Persico wrote: I see that DBD::Oracle is now included in Strawberry. I'd like to see DBD::Sybase also included. Well, I have included Oracle DB driver as it is IMO commercial DB No.1. I am not sure how popular Sybase DB is nowadays and how big is its user base (esp

Oracle is included - how about Sybase?

2014-12-01 Thread Matthew Persico
I see that DBD::Oracle is now included in Strawberry. I'd like to see DBD::Sybase also included. I assume the steps to doing so are: 1) Identify a FREE downloadable client library package for Sybase, a'la Oracle Insta-client 2) Build using Strawberry One problem is that the make requires intera