FreeTDS Development Group

["Ed Delgado" <delinfo AT home.com>]

This is starting to sound promising!!!

What specific information do I need to know about the Sybase System, that I
want to interface with, to have a better idea if FreeTDS can help me? Along
those lines, what information do I need about the platforms that my client
will be running on?

I am relatively new to the ODBC game (especially from UNIX side), can you
tell me all of the components that I will need to implement this UNIX to
Sybase solution?

You mentioned that you have run FreeTDS under Digital UNIX 4.0, was that an
ALPHA based system?

That would be the first PLATFORM I need to implement, but, I would work on
getting it to work on HPUX as well. Is there documentation or sample client
code written that I could take a look at?

Any help you could provide would help immensely.  Thanks for the speedy
reply....

Ed



> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-freetds-85422 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
> [mailto:bounce-freetds-85422 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu]On Behalf Of Brian
> Bruns
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 1999 2:50 PM
> To: TDS Development Group
> Subject: [freetds] Re: Can FreeTDS help me with my Sybase interface
> problem
>
>
>
> FreeTDS will allow a Unix box to run selects against any server
> that uses TDS (Sybase SQL Server, Syabase Rep Server, an OpenServer
> application, Microsoft SQL Server, etc...). It can be used from C using
> db-lib or ct-lib, from Java using FreeTDS/JDBC, from Perl by compiling
> sybperl against freetds, and has been reported to work (to lesser or
> greater degree) with sybtcl and php3. For simple shell scripting SQSH
> compiled against freetds provides a nice way to get the data (sqsh allows
> turning off headers/footers and other niceities).
>
> That said, the number of unix boxes it has been run on is actually
> somewhat low.  It is known to run under Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris (with
> varying amounts of success), and I have run it under AIX and Digital Unix
> 4.0 (although not recently). On the other hand, if you want to try it on
> HP-UX I'd be happy to provide any assistance I could.
>
> Brian
>
> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Ed Delgado wrote:
>
> > I am working on a project that involves interfacing to multiple Sybase
> > instances.  My Client will be running on a UNIX server (HPUX
> 10.20 and/or
> > Digital UNIX 4.0).  I just need to capability to perform simple SELECT
> > statements.  Can the FreeTDS project help me in any way???
> >
> >
>
>
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