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  • From: "Spectron Caribe, Inc." <spectron AT caribe.net>
  • To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: SQL Server Emulation
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:02:37 -0400


You could check this site:

http://www.jepstone.net/tinySQL/

Faw

----- Original Message -----
From: "Antonio Ognio" <ognio AT peruserver.com>
To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 2:17 PM
Subject: [freetds] SQL Server Emulation


> Hi there,
>
> I'm joining the list to learn about TDS and FreeTDS and specially
> to explore the idea of a deamon listing and serving TDS but using
> another database as a the real backend, e.g. PostgreSQL.
>
> I'm starting to think of this as some sort of SQL Server emulator.
> I guess the tough part is developing the "server" part. This "emulator"
> might even be configurable to act as a client to different databases
> for the the real backend.
>
> Does somebody has a project like this in mind? Has somoene seen or
> heard something related to this idea?
>
> I can code some C. Is all what I need inside the sources of FreeTDS?
> You think a server might be coded just looking in the sources of
> FreeTDS? What other considerations are needed?
>
> Many people in commercial enviroments seem to have applications
> (usually with no access to source code) designed to work with
> SQL server. I work developing PHP apps and giving some basic
> linux consultancy so many people talk about this to me.
>
> If this people could replace their NT/Win2k boxes running SQL Server
> with Linux Boxes running MySQL or PostgreSQL (or even Oracle when
> available) many would move to Linux even at the costs in performance
> this sort of solution would have.
>
> In developing countries like mine, IT managers are very price
> sensitive and many are willing to move to Linux. I believe a technology
> like this could attract many people.
>
> Thanks a LOT for your time and guidance.
>
> Antonio
> Lima, Peru
>
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