Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi All. > > I'd DEARLY love to get Linux established on my university campus, but > >one of the stumbling blocks is that one of our major apps is based on an > >SQLServer 6.5 database running on an NT Server. The clients are all > >Win95/98/NT based. Is there anyway for me to connect to the SQLServer > >data using a Linux client? > > I think so, there is undoubtedly a Perl DBD driver for it so you > can use DBI and DBD to talk to the database. That is supposing you > want to use perl for the job, but there is also a command line sql > client written in perl that comes with DBI. > > Hmm... I checked, there is not really something for M$ databases, > but they supposedly use the same protocol as Sybase, so the Sybase > stuff _might_ work with a M$ SQL server. > > See also the FreeTDS project at http://tbwa.volcano.org/freetds/ > > > I at first thought postgresql might do it, but after installing it I > >can't even figure out how to get it to run (I can't even find the pgsql > >that a Postgresql tutorial mentions). > > Postgres _is_ a database. You don't want to install a database, > you just want a way to connect to the remote database right? >
No, I do not want to install a database. Yes, I just want to connect to the remote SQLServer database. (I'm not very well-versed in database stuff.) I basically need to be able to do two things: 1) Manipulate the data, and 2) print reports of the data (we're currently using Crystal Reports in a Windows environment to generate the reports). > Mike. > -- > "Seed me, Seymour" > -- a random number generator meets the big green mother from outer space > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
