> I hope the list can give me any advice or pointers on what is the best > way to access data from a SQL Server 2005 database from OpenBSD
'Best' is subjective. I myself would say the best way would involve using bsd.rd, fdisk and newfs. Note, Postgresql is part of ports: http://www.openbsd.org/4.5_packages/i386/postgresql-server-8.3.6.tgz-long.html http://www.openbsd.org/4.5_packages/i386/postgresql-jdbc-8.2.505p0.tgz-long.html http://www.openbsd.org/4.5_packages/i386/postgresql-contrib-8.3.6.tgz-long.html http://www.openbsd.org/4.5_packages/i386/qt4-postgresql-4.4.3.tgz-long.html http://www.openbsd.org/4.5_packages/i386/postgresql-client-8.3.6.tgz-long.html http://www.openbsd.org/4.5_packages/i386/postgresql-jdbc-docs-8.2.505.tgz-long.html http://www.openbsd.org/4.5_packages/i386/postgresql-docs-8.3.6.tgz-long.html Note, Mysql is part of ports: http://www.openbsd.org/4.5_packages/i386/mysql-server-5.0.77.tgz-long.html http://www.openbsd.org/4.5_packages/i386/mysql-client-5.0.77.tgz-long.html http://www.openbsd.org/4.5_packages/i386/qt4-mysql-4.4.3.tgz-long.html Regards -Lars