From Clive.darke at qa.com  Thu Sep  1 01:38:12 2005
From: Clive.darke at qa.com (Darke, Clive)
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 09:38:12 +0100 
Subject: [DCPM] rats
Message-ID: <6717F6757D09C24C9BFAC4F7B769682F24D29B@MAIL.corp.qa.com>

Never mind Steve, maybe next time...  Chatting to Neil made a nice change
from talking with my course delegates (I didn't have to be careful what I
said).  Even if we did talk about GNUCash more that Perl ;-)
 
Now, what's this Z3950 stuff all about...
 
Cheers,
Clive


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From steve at devon-it.co.uk  Mon Sep 26 05:15:31 2005
From: steve at devon-it.co.uk (Steve Marvell)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:15:31 +0100
Subject: [DCPM] sql server
Message-ID: <20050926121530.GA6979@devon-it.co.uk>

Has anyone got a Unix box talking to SQl Server using Perl?

Steve

From simon at technocool.net  Mon Sep 26 06:10:00 2005
From: simon at technocool.net (Simon Waters)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:10:00 +0100
Subject: [DCPM] sql server
In-Reply-To: <20050926121530.GA6979@devon-it.co.uk>
References: <20050926121530.GA6979@devon-it.co.uk>
Message-ID: <4337F328.7050600@technocool.net>

Steve Marvell wrote:
> Has anyone got a Unix box talking to SQl Server using Perl?

No all our MS SQL to Unix talk is done via http so as to tunnel through 
firewalls.

But opinion here is "how hard can it be?".

I've done Unix ODBC before (not Perl), and as long as there is a 
compatible ODBC driver all you should need is "use DBI ;"

Apparently DBD::ODBC includes a compatible ODBC driver.

The usual caveats about ODBC/MS SQL apply, it looks pretty but think 
twice, or test hard, before you bet the business on it.

From aaron.trevena at gmail.com  Mon Sep 26 07:05:14 2005
From: aaron.trevena at gmail.com (Aaron Trevena)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:05:14 +0100
Subject: [DCPM] sql server
In-Reply-To: <4337F328.7050600@technocool.net>
References: <20050926121530.GA6979@devon-it.co.uk>
	<4337F328.7050600@technocool.net>
Message-ID: <edcafa7d0509260705bcd67d6@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/26/05, Simon Waters <simon at technocool.net> wrote:
> Steve Marvell wrote:
> > Has anyone got a Unix box talking to SQl Server using Perl?
>
> No all our MS SQL to Unix talk is done via http so as to tunnel through
> firewalls.
>
> But opinion here is "how hard can it be?".
>
> I've done Unix ODBC before (not Perl), and as long as there is a
> compatible ODBC driver all you should need is "use DBI ;"
>
> Apparently DBD::ODBC includes a compatible ODBC driver.
>
> The usual caveats about ODBC/MS SQL apply, it looks pretty but think
> twice, or test hard, before you bet the business on it.

When I did this I used DBI::Proxy.. handy and securable, should also
play nice with ssh port forwarding should you want the connection
encrypted and on different ports.

Other than that I think you have a choice of a unix ODBC and DBD::ODBC
or doing DBD::Sybase and FreeTDS

some useful urls :

http://search.cpan.org/~jurl/DBD-ODBC-1.13/ODBC.pm
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqsh (sql server shell for *nix)
http://www.susesecurity.com/sql-dbi_howto.shtml
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoConnectToMicrosoftSQLServerFromRailsOnLinux
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/csg/faqs/sql-server.html

this post acts more of a note to self than direct help sorry :)

A.