Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

freetds - Re: MS SQL Server 7.0 and Perl

freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: FreeTDS Development Group

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: <camber AT ais.org>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: MS SQL Server 7.0 and Perl
  • Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 21:12:29 -0400 (EDT)




On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Lora wrote:

> I know this has probably been covered but I can't find a useful answer. So
> here it goes. Our platform consists of a Redhat Linux 6.1 box running Perl
> and Apache. The database is on WinNT with SQL Server 7.0. We want to
> connect the two together. We have tried using the DBD::Sybase but it will
> not work becuase we are storing Articles which are over 255 characters. Is
> there something we are missing or can we not do this? Also we tried to use
> the DBD::Proxy and ODBC but we are having a problem with performance (5-10
> seconds of lag time, which is not acceptable to the higher ups).

Can you be a little more specific? is 'Articles' a text field, a
nvarchar, or what? If it's nvarchar you need to compile freetds with TDS
version 7.0. If it's text, well then that's another can of worms.

Brian

>
> Any help will be appreciated.
> thanks in advance
>
> Lora Woodworth
>





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page