FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 02:04:26 +0000, "cal kaiwen" <cal_kaiwen AT hotmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> And found this 'FreeTDS ODBC driver', under the software download page, 
> which item is FreeTDS ODBC Driver? Is it under the FreeTDS 0.61
> Downloads (C libraries)?

Yes, when you install
http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/stable/freetds-0.61.tgz,
following the instructions in the User Guide for building with iODBC or
unixODBC, you'll have the FreeTDS ODBC driver.  

It's been agreed that the ODBC section of the UG needs to be reorganized. 


> "A third option is to use DBD::ODBC with the FreeTDS ODBC driver. Brian
> has gotten this to work fairly well but it is still new, so YMMV. "

That advice still holds; I think even Frediano would agree that the db-lib
and ct-lib APIs remain more complete than ODBC.  However, great strides
have been made, and ODBC shouldn't be considered "experimental" anymore
(no more so than the rest of FreeTDS, that is).  

--jkl