DBD::MSSQL

We're looking at a period of time during which we will be migrating from Sybase to MSSQL and will need to support both platforms.  As you may know there are a few things that do not work properly with FreeTDS when used against Sybase, so we'd like to have DBI modules which use the Sybase and FreeTDS drivers.  We do not want to compile DBD::Sybase with FreeTDS.

What I've been asked to do is to port DBD::Sybase to DBD::FreeTDS.  It's been suggested that it might be as easy as taking the DBD::Sybase distro and s/DBD::Sybase/DBD::FreeTDS/.  I suspect that it is somewhat more complicated and that there may be other issues to deal with in such a port.

I see that someone had started this back in the previous millennium, but that it was dropped from CPAN due to lack of support.

Though I am loathe to embark on this process, I'm about to get started.  I'd appreciate any input you guys may have that would steer me in the right direction, make me aware of potential pitfalls, or otherwise clue me in to the surrounding issues.

Thanks.

Eric

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