FreeTDS Development Group

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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
>