Re: DBD for SQL Server

Peter Hircock via dbi-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.general
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DBD::ODBC 

On Linux you can use FreeTDS & unixODBC , or Microsoft also has Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server on Linux. 



From: "Kurt Jaeger" <[email protected]> 
To: "Rob Dixon" <[email protected]> 
Cc: "Tim Bunce" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Wednesday, 7 September, 2016 10:01:40 
Subject: Re: DBD for SQL Server 

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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