Re: Does this replace freetds ?

FreeTDS will still be very useful for those of us that need a way to
communicate with SQL Server from Unix environments like Solaris.
We are still going to need FreeTDS (specifically, I'm using fisql and
freebcp quite extensively to ease a migration from Sybase to MS SQL Server
- it's helping me to avoid having to re-do all the scripts and cron jobs we
had setup in Solaris that ran our nightly jobs against the Sybase
database).

-Ray

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From:	"James K. Lowden" <[email protected]>
To:	[email protected]
Date:	11/30/2011 10:05 PM
Subject:	Re: [freetds] Does this replace freetds ?
Sent by:	[email protected]



On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:41:29 -0500
Ravi Krishna <[email protected]> wrote:

>
http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2011/11/28/available-today-preview-release-of-the-sql-server-odbc-driver-for-linux.aspx

> I hope the above does not make freetds redundant.

Better than hope: analyze.  List the features of FreeTDS  and of
Microsoft's ODBC driver that matter to you.  If the union equals the
intersection, one is redundant, else not.

It's certainly news -- and welcome news, at that -- when Microsoft
offers a Linux driver.  It also validates (part of) what we've
been doing all these years.

--jkl
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