Perl/DBI, or any mysql client on Linux should connect to mysql on NT
with no problem. Why would you need ODBC?
William Goedicke wrote:
>
> Dear Y'all -
>
> I've developed a diff-based testing framework in perl. It's used to
> qualify modifications we want to make to systems (i.e. applying
> patches, installing applications...) for deployment to a thousand some
> odd machines. The testing framework runs on linux and tests target
> machines that run linux, solaris and Windoze NT.
>
> One of the capabilities we test on those target machines is the DBMS.
> The test framework compares crash-me runs on the linux MySQL servers
> from before and after we make the change and highlights the changes
> which we then analyze.
>
> I also want to run crash-me on the linux box against M$ SQL Server on
> the NT boxes and see how the results change. It's proving to be
> difficult to do that.
>
> Finally we get to my question. Can anyone give me pointers on how to
> setup the linux box so that I can run crash-me against the remote NT
> box's SQL Servers. Crash-me is running fine on the linux test server
> and I've been experimenting with unixODBC and other utilities. Is
> there no other solution other than finding a M$ SQL Server ODBC driver
> that runs on linux and is there such a thing?
>
> Yours - Billy
>
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