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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: MS SQL Server access from FreeBSD?
Date: 13 Feb 1997 16:45:29 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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wrote on 08 Feb (in article <5dggtd$dpi$1@venus.mcs.net>):
=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.
I'd say you do not need NT's SQL at all. There are a few very nice
SQL-engines for FreeBSD itself (look at /usr/ports/databases) with
API for many languages (C, TCL, Perl, others).
Remember, that all Microsoft beasts only work well on demos and
samples...
BTW, does anyone know if MSQL or Postgres95 have ODBC support?
-mi
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