[NCLUG] Apache/Linux & M$ SQL Server 2000

[J. Paul Reed]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Rich Young wrote:

> So now the question:  Is there anything out there that will allow perl,
> python, you-name-it to connect to SQL Server 2000 from a linux
> environment for web development porpoises?

ODBC should work fine.

Note the keyword in the above statement: "should".

We've got an ODBC <-> JDBC bridge for some (admittedly non-web) software,
and except for Microsoft's shitty ODBC drivers, it works fine.

The perl database driver has ODBC modules... python too, probably.

Later,
Paul
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