From: Nick Murtagh (murtaghn at domain tcd.ie)
Date: Fri 19 Oct 2001 - 14:16:00 IST
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 07:38:57AM -0500, John_White at domain dell.com wrote:
> I haven't tried with an MS SQL server but the UNIXODBC project seems to do a
> very good job of talking to a remote Postgres SQL server . . . I assume
> there are MS SQL drivers for it. Incidentally the RPM's for these ship with
> Mandrake 8 . . . .
There's no need to take this offlist, it's perfectly on topic.
Anyway, UNIXODBC doesn't have any drivers for MS SQL, which I assume
is what the original poster referred to as "SQL Server". You have to
use freetds, or the Sybase drivers or some ODBC bridge type craziness.
> Other things to try include freetds
> http://www.freetds.org
> or Sybase's drivers
> http://www.sybase.org/linux
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