FreeTDS Development Group

[Peter Haworth <pmh AT edison.ioppublishing.com>]

Speaking of DBI, has anyone managed to get DBD::Sybase (using FreeTDS) or
DBD::FreeTDS on Solaris to talk to MS SQL on NT? I've hacked the build as
mentioned previously on the list to build big-endian, and with I DBD::Sybase I
can successfully connect to the server, but it always complains that any rows
returned have zero columns, and DBD::FreeTDS always dumps core when trying to
connect.


Brian Bruns wrote:
> Actually there is a primitive FreeTDS/ODBC driver, which does work with
> iODBC for a driver manager.  However, it's not in much of a usable state
> currently. It can process a simple query, but that's about it. 
> 
> For DBI to Sybase/MS-SQL, your best bet would be Craigs DBI driver
> (available from the FreeTDS CVS repo), or getting DBD::Sybase to working
> over FreeTDS/CTlib (mostly there I think, Ctlib needs a few enhancements
> before it will work).
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Tom wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Peter Haworth wrote:
> > 
> > > Keith A. Clay wrote:
> > > > I have freetds compiled and am trying to compile the DBD-ODBC with it
> > > > and here are the errors.  What do I need to change to get this to
> > > > compile?? 
> > > 
> > > You need an ODBC driver manager like iodbc, which comes with DBD::ODBC.
> > > You compile DBD::ODBC with the manager without regard for which
> > > databases you might use (apart from testing). Then you need an ODBC
> > > driver for FreeTDS (or Sybase or MSSQL).
> > 
> >   I don't belive FreeTDS has an ODBC layer at this time.

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