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  • From: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Newbie: connecting to MS SQL 2008 R2 from MacOS 10.5 running XAMP
  • Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:25:22 +0200

2010/9/16 Deven Hariyani <devenh AT gmail.com>

> Hello folks,
>
> I've spent the last two days familiarizing myself with the documentation
> and
> steps for installing freetds. The good news is that the documentation on
> the
> website has been helpful and I was able to download the source, build the
> executables, and test the connection using tsql. Currently, my installation
> is located in the default directory */usr/local/freetds* and my conf file
> with sql server information is located in */usr/local/freetds/etc*, but now
> I am confused how am I supposed to tell XAMP, which is located in
> /Applications/XAMP to use freetds?
>
> My XAMP installation has a freetds.conf file located in
> /Applications/XAMP/xampfiles/etc
>
> One more thing... when I did some google searches I found some threads that
> discussed a mssql.so module which I am supposed to put into my php.ini
> file.
> My php.ini file is located in /Applications/XAMP/xampfiles/etc, but I
> believe the mssql.so is for something else not related to freetds, am I
> correct? If so, what are the major differences between mssql.so and
> freetds?
>
> Thanks for all of your wonderful help!
>

mssql.so is a PHP module which links PHP and FreeTDS together !

freddy77




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