FreeTDS Development Group

[Stefan Bodewig <bodewig AT bost.de>]

>>>>> "l" == lkrenz  <lkrenz AT fh-stralsund.de> writes:

 l> The reason why I want to do it is that I have to develop a
 l> java-servlet wich should access a database on a MS SQL Server. And
 l> while MS doesn´t support a JDBC driver I thought that I can use
 l> Freetds [ it´s cheap ;) ].

As somebody else already said, you don't need the C lib at all to run
the JDBC stuff.

I have a couple of servers running in exactly the configuration you
describe.

Be aware of some (current) limitations of the JDBC driver though, it
doesn't support the "new" features of MS SQLServer 7 which means no
NTEXT (and friends) support and CHAR, BINARY and their VARYING
variants are limited to 256 bytes (CONVERT them to TEXT or IMAGE if
you need more).

Stefan