FreeTDS Development Group

[Stefan Bodewig <bodewig AT bost.de>]

James K. Lowden <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com> wrote:

> FreeTDS helps people get from Unix environments to Sybase/Microsoft
> databases.  If your client is on a Microsoft OS, I think you already
> have what you need i.e., a jdbc-dbco bridge.

Not quite. The JDBC-ODBC bridge is slow and buggy as hell, I'd never
recommend using it. I came into the FreeTDS business when a customer
decided they wanted to deploy on NT and the JVM running the servlet
container crashed about once a day because of some strange access
violations inside native code of the bridge.

If you (eric) are unable to compile FreeTDS-JDBC, why not simply pick
up a precompiled version - they should be available from the same
place you can download the sources from.

BTW I've seen some reports in comp.lang.java.databases as well as here
that indicate FreeTDS-JDBC doesn't work well with SQL Server 2000, I
cannot comment on it as we are still using SQL Server 7.

Stefan