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All working fine!<br><br>
M$ SQL is a pain but I now have a perl script on my LINUX box that
queries a MS SQLservr 2000 database onon an NT box.<br><br>
I am useing the Sybase::DBD module which happily talks to MS via the TDS
protocol with no ODBC cluients in the way to complicate and slow things
down.<br><br>
Hell - I think I shall have the rest of the day off<br><br>
Thanks Oscar for the pointer to freetds.org <br><br>
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At 2003/06/26 12:44 PM, Oskar Pearson wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Hi<br><br>
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> It's not the best software on earth, by the way - do some<br>
> extensive testing to ensure it's not giving you bogus results;<br>
> I've had problems with, for example, very very large numbers<br>
> being fed back wrong.<br><br>
Sorry to reply to my own reply. Just a note that the above was<br>
with freetds 0.53-7 - I don't know if later versions are<br>
better.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.freetds.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.freetds.org/</a><br><br>
Latest version is 0.61.<br><br>
The numbers were numeric(18,0)s, if I remember correctly.<br><br>
Oskar<br>
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Oskar Pearson <oskar@qualica.com><br>
Qualica Technologies (Pty) Ltd<br>
web:
<a href="http://www.qualica.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.qualica.com/</a>
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