On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 05:38:12PM -0700, Adi Fairbank wrote:
> Joshua Chamas wrote:
> >
> > "Castellon, Francisco" wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi I am running on Windows98SE, Apache 1.20, mod_perl 1.25, php 4.0.6, and
> > > have the latest Apache::ASP installed and have Activestate's Perl installed
> > > (build 626).
> > >
> > > I want to be able to access, Oracle, SQL and MSAccess databases as well as a
> > > couple of other Databases that support ODBC. I want to access these DBs from
> > > my apache server. What do i need??
> > >
> >
> > DBD::ODBC is your ticket, running under DBI
> > http://dbi.symbolstone.org/
> >
> > You can probably install DBD::ODBC for Activestate perl with
> > the ppm installer, as they will likely already have compiled
> > it for you. Apache::DBI is installed with CPAN.
> >
>
> What's the stability of DBD::ODBC like? It claims to be alpha software.
> Does anyone have any experience with it in a production environment? Is it
> at least stable with MS SQL server?
The Alpha tag is a relic. I believe DBD::ODBC is fine and in widespread production use.
Tim.
