Re: Running crash-me against remote M$ SQL Server

2001-04-10 Thread William Goedicke
Dear Y'all - Well, I'm pretty giddy having just gotten my linux box to successfully communicate with M$ SQL Server on a remote NT machine. As promised, in gratitude for earlier help from list members I've written this e-mail outlining how I got it to work. The real trick was to follow the inst

Re: Running crash-me against remote M$ SQL Server

2001-04-06 Thread Tristan 'Minty' Colgate
Hi, http://tlowery.hypermart.net/perl_dbi_dbd_faq.html This contains the info on how to setup the dbi proxy solution. I tried the sybase method today, but had no luck (all the test-* scripts just core, v annoying). Ive also come to the conclusion that the entire odbc thing should just be

Re: Running crash-me against remote M$ SQL Server

2001-04-06 Thread William Goedicke
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 un

Re: Running crash-me against remote M$ SQL Server

2001-04-06 Thread Gerald Clark
Vivek Khera wrote: > > > "GC" == Gerald Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GC> Perl/DBI, or any mysql client on Linux should connect to mysql on NT > GC> with no problem. Why would you need ODBC? > > Except that perl/DBI requires an underlying C library for the DBMS in > question. I un

Re: Running crash-me against remote M$ SQL Server

2001-04-05 Thread Vivek Khera
> "GC" == Gerald Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GC> Perl/DBI, or any mysql client on Linux should connect to mysql on NT GC> with no problem. Why would you need ODBC? Except that perl/DBI requires an underlying C library for the DBMS in question. I understand that the sybase libs might

Re: Running crash-me against remote M$ SQL Server

2001-04-05 Thread Joshua Chamas
William Goedicke wrote: > > 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 ut

Re: Running crash-me against remote M$ SQL Server

2001-04-05 Thread Peter Skipworth
I think William mentioned MS-SQL - as opposed to mysql - on the NT box... P On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Gerald Clark wrote: > 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 - > >

Re: Running crash-me against remote M$ SQL Server

2001-04-05 Thread Gerald Clark
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 >

Running crash-me against remote M$ SQL Server

2001-04-05 Thread William Goedicke
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 th