[H-GEN] talking to a sybase db server (on an NT box)

[Michael Anthon]

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> I have all the perl DB and ODBC drivers installed, and I've written
> perl interfaces to mysql before.  There is a Sybase perl module but
> I can't install it because it is looking for headers and development
> libraries.  (Do I really need the sybase driver libraries when the
> more generic odbc drivers are available?)

Going from memory here, but is this the TDS protocol?  A few years back I
managed to get php talking to MS SQL 6.5 by grabbing the Sybase demo
software and compiling/linking the TDS stuff against the Sybase headers and
binaries.  It worked pretty well.  The other thing worth doing is to
investigate FreeTDS (http://www.freetds.org/).  At the time I was playing
with this stuff I couldn't get FreeTDS to work, but as I mentioned, that was
several years back.

Cheers
Michael


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