FreeTDS Development Group

[Garrett Goebel <garrett AT scriptpro.com>]

From: Peter Milburn [mailto:peterm AT sportodds.com]
> 
> We are currently using freetds with the sybase drivers to 
> connect to MS SQL with php. We are now trying to do the
> same in perl. I have tried  a few ways, but have had no
> luck. If anyone has been able to get a perl to talk to
> a MS SQL server, can you please let me know.

I've been successful using the following:

unixODBC 2.0.6
FreeTDS 0.61
Perl 5.8.0
DBI 1.32
DBD::ODBC 1.04
DBD::Sybase 0.95


It came down to reading the documentation very closely... and a bit of
sifting through archives. For example, in unixODBC's odbc.ini I missed any
reference to the distinction between ServerName (DNS) vs. Server (ipaddr).
But fortunately, someone else had recently asked the same question on the
FreeTDS list.

Speaking of which, the FreeTDS mailing list archives are _not_ searchable.
No matter what I type in the search box, it returns: No "matches were found
for ...".

Garrett

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