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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.thenet.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!198.4.164.94!gail.ripco.com!news.fred.net!not-for-mail From: mcurry@fred.net ( ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: MS SQL Server access from FreeBSD? Date: 16 Feb 1997 03:54:17 GMT Organization: FredNet - Frederick, Md. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5e60d9$4tu@news.fred.net> References: <5dggtd$dpi$1@Venus.mcs.net> <5dvgf9$h1t$1@news.ziplink.net> <330308BE.5866@visigenic.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bigdog.fred.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35512 Tim O'Neil (toneil@visigenic.com) wrote: : MS SQL Server, lemme add my two cents. I use MS SQL Server : 6.0 and 6.5 regularly (I'm an odbc driver support engineer). : Frankly, MS SQL Server (6.5 especially) is a fine product. : We make an odbc driver for it for solaris. I'd normally prefer : my back end on a unix box, but SQL Server has a lot of nice : features and is consistantly faster accross the wire than some : of the others we deal with. Try using MS-SQL with MS-IIS through an http interface. Try using it with less than 64Mb RAM. Try it with 10+ users under "all of the above" conditions. mc