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["JENNI WOLGAST" <JWOLGAST AT healthplus.org>]

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I might give DBD::Sybase a try when I get to that point. For right now though 
I cannot even get the FreeTDS part working. Thanks for the suggestion though!

Jenni

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>>> "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org> 4/5/2007 1:05 PM >>>
JENNI WOLGAST wrote:
> My ultimate goal is to be able to retrieve data from a MS SQL 2000
> database for use on my HP-UX 11.11 server via a Perl script. From what I
> have read, it looks like I need the unixODBC driver manager and the
> FreeTDS ODBC driver to be able to do this. 

In my opinion, with Perl you're better off using DBD::Sybase with FreeTDS.
 It communicates with Microsoft servers just fine.  You have one less
layer (no DM) to configure.  The only advantage to ODBC is placeholder
support.  

It's not an either/or thing.  DBD::ODBC and DBD::Sybase can be used by the
same script if need be.  So you can give them both a try, if you like.  

HTH.  

--jkl
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