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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=950174709-03072003>I'm
going to try this right now! Do you do inserts as well?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=950174709-03072003></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=950174709-03072003>Cheers,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=950174709-03072003>Werner</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Spike
[mailto:spikeh@mweb.co.za]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 27 June 2003 12:31<BR><B>To:</B>
Za-pm@mail.pm.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Za-pm] perl -> MS
SQLserver<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>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><BR>At 2003/06/26 12:44 PM, Oskar Pearson wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">Hi<BR><BR><BR>> 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>--<BR>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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