Janet Goldstein wrote:
Am I missing something? I searched CPAN for a DBI driver for Microsoft SQL Server and found only "DBIx::SQLEngine::Driver::MSSQL - Support DBD::ODBC with Microsoft SQL Server." Is there nothing out there for SQL Server as there is for Oracle (DBD::Oracle)? Must I go through ODBC to talk to a SQL Server database?
Janet> there is DBD::Sybase module and using FreeTDS.
The standard release of MS-SQL 7 can not be accessed using the Sybase libraries, but can be used using the FreeTDS libraries. There is a patch for MS-SQL 7 to allow Sybase clients to connect: