FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT speakeasy.org>]

Stefan,

Well, that's what I get for talking out of school.  I was just relying on the
documentation; I had no idea it was so unreliable.  Thanks for straightening 
me out.

--jkl


Stefan Bodewig 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-odbc 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.