FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>]

> 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. 
> 

Agree

> 
> > "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).  
> 

Agree. ODBC design require much more implementation than other library.
If program do not require too much it work good. Star Office, for
instance, do not work. 

Coming back to real problem... odbc.ini configuration. Can you post your
odbc.ini dsn section?

freddy77