FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

So we have to use our software on windows 
i have to use ODBC,
which makes performance a disaster ....(3-10 times slower ...even when I
use OleDB as provider).

VH, 

May I ask, what exactly did you use?  Perl::DBD (my inference) with FreeTDS
on Linux and it worked fine, but Perl::ODBC on NT it was "3-10 times
slower"?  There are a lot of variables here that could explain the
difference.  

I'm afraid I don't understand what you're looking for that Microsoft doesn't
provide to connect an NT client to an NT server.  I don't think you have to
go through ODBC or Ole DB to reach MSSQL2000.  Would DBD::Sybase will do the
trick?  

--jkl