Re: DBD for SQL Server

Kurt Jaeger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Hi!

> I'm wondering why there is no DBD module for Microsoft SQL Server?

MS SQL is mostly-compatible with DBD::Sybase, as far as I know.

http://search.cpan.org/~mewp/DBD-Sybase-1.15/Sybase.pm#Using_DBD::Sybase_with_MS-SQL

> Is it a technical impossibility, or is it just waiting to be written?

FreeTDS does the wire format, so if someone wants to get down
to native stuff...

http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/freetds/

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