Dear Y'all - 

Joshua Chamas writes:

 > I believe that perl's DBD::Sybase can be used to connect to 
 > MS SQL server.  I've never done it myself mind you, but heard
 > it to be true.

Vivek Khera writes:

 > Except that perl/DBI requires an underlying C library for the DBMS in
 > question.  I understand that the sybase libs might be able to talk to
 > MS SQL server, so that may be an option.

 This makes sense I'll try that and let everyone know how to do it if
I can get it to work.

Tristan 'Minty' Colgate writes:

 >   The one approach that will almost certainly work is to
 > install perl on the nt box with dbi and dbd::odbcd, then setup
 > dbi proxy betweem the linux box and the nt box, I found a sample
 > config from google on how to do this, though Ive temporarily lost
 > the link.
 > 
 >   Apparently the php site has alot of info on this aswell, 
 > someone here mention freetds as the most viable option, though
 > Ive not got round to trying it yet.

 This too makes sense.  If you find the link please send it on; I'll
look for info on this as well.

Thanks to all for the help.

       Yours -    Billy

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