APM: which ODBC do-dads?

[Jeremy Brooks]

I'm going to look into using unixodbc as the odbc manager and freetds as
the driver.  The site for iODBC was an immediate turn-off and didn't
appear well organized.  

thanks to all,
  Jeremy 


On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 16:23, Leeland H wrote:
> Re: APM: which ODBC do-dads?
> Jeremy Brooks <jbrooks4 at austin.rr.com> writes:
> >  I need to access a Microsoft SQL server from a Perl application
> >running on a Linux machine.  I have DBI installed and have been using it
> >for quite sometime with the mysql driver.  I've downloaded DBD-ODBC-1.09
> >and now I need to get a "driver manager" and a driver to access the
> >Microsoft SQL database... hmmm.  It looks like there are several
> >option.  Who here has experience enough to give me some suggestions on
> >which "driver manager" and driver to use?   
> 
> I've used iODBC Driver Manager, you can find info about it here:
> 
> http://www.openlinksw.com/iodbc/
> 
> The other major choice is unixODBC, which you can find here:
> 
> http://www.unixodbc.org/
> 
> A further source for information, and another option is to use
> DBD-Sybase and FreeTDS (TDS is the wire level protocol both Sybase
> and MS-SQL Server use (MS-SQL Server was originally based on code
> licensed from Sybase).
> 
> http://www.freetds.org/
> 
> Hope that helps.
>