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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: MS SQL Server access from FreeBSD? Date: 7 Feb 1997 18:21:01 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5dggtd$dpi$1@Venus.mcs.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: venus.mcs.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35136 [Apologies if anyone sees this twice.] I'm new to the MS SQL Server bit, but I've got 6.5 running on NT Server 4 and it seems to be working fine, with some sample databases up and running. Now, what I'd like to do is access the databases from a FreeBSD box, presumably using ODBC via TCP/IP. This will help me continue to use Apache as a web server and have a nice database back end. The problem is that I've been unable to find any portable source code which will talk to that ODBC port on the SQL Server box. I'm sure MS would like me to do everything in W95/NT, but in some heterogeneous networks that's just not a viable option. Plus, Apache on FreeBSD on a P75 w/16M RAM is just as fast as IIS2 on a dual PPro 200 w/128M RAM, so far. Am I out of luck, or am I just not looking hard enough? Is there ODBC client code out there in C source form with all that's needed to make it work under FreeBSD? I'm running 2.1.6.1, generic kernel. -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.