FreeTDS Development Group

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

> From: Shirley Cohen [mailto:scohen AT austin.tacc.utexas.edu]
> Sent: July 14, 2003 10:48 AM
> 
> What is the best way to connect to SQLServer 2000 from Perl 
> on a Windows platform?

Shirley, 

Strictly speaking, you only need FreeTDS on a Windows platform if you don't
have access to Microsoft's libraries.  

Perl for Win32 ships with Win32::ODBC, DBD::ODBC and DBD::Sybase.  With
Microsoft's libraries, ODBC is your only choice (except for sybperl, which,
while it works well, predates DBI/DBD and is a bit tricky to set up).  

With FreeTDS, DBD::Sybase is your best bet, IMHO.  It works fine with
Microsoft servers, despite its name.  

This is a horse race, by the way.  Support for both systems is seeing active
development, and the better choice might change with the next release
(sometime this fall, I predict).  

--jkl
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