APM: which ODBC do-dads?

[Jeremy Brooks]

Thanks Wayne,
  I read the same thing and will probably end up going that route if
ODBC continues to thwart my efforts.  The application I'm working on is
an API to a corporate product database, so using ODBC would be best I
think.  I had a minor catastrophe last night when I "installed" the
Openlinksw.com Microsoft SQL driver.  After the first setup question,
things went a little nuts and the setup script produced several hundred
empty files in my home directory with garbage names.  It's screwed my
xterm session up and nothing was readable during the "install process".
I'm now in the process of backing stuff up before automating a clean up
of my home directory.... #$^&!!!!   I'll be calling Openlink today for a
WTF session!

-Jeremy

On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 22:57, Wayne Walker wrote:
> According to the version of SQL Server and how it's configured, you may
> be able to use the Sybase driver.  SQL Server was developer from Sybase
> and they shared communication protocols until "lately".  Even a very new
> SQL Server if "compatibility" is turned on will still speak the previous
> protocol which is the latest Sybase protocol.
> 
> This is all third hand information, but I remember trusting whatever
> source that info came from.
> 
> Of course, if you get ODBC running it's probably better (mainly
> compatibility and forward support) except for speed.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:21:40PM -0500, Jeremy Brooks wrote:
> > Folks,
> >   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?   
> > 
> > 
> > -Jeremy
> > 
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