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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!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news-peer.nctu.edu.tw!news.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ODBC & freeBSD Date: 17 Mar 1997 18:43:15 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5gkof3$duf$1@Venus.mcs.net> References: <332DC321.7932@madisontelco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: venus.mcs.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37251 Mike Payne <mpayne@madisontelco.com> writes: >Does anyone know of any ODBC client drivers for freeBSD? I need to >access a Microsoft SQL-Server 6.5 database running on a Windows NT 4.0 >system from a web site running freeBSD. I found an ODBC client manager, >but not any drivers. If there are not any drivers, does anyone know of >any products that I can purchase that would allow me to access the >database? I had to do something similar, ended up finding no appropriate products, and wrote an ad hoc query/command processor on NT which delivers everything to the generic FreeBSD box through a socket. Not too sophisticated, but it does work. (Also used Pragma Systems NT version of inetd so I wouldn't have to write WinSock, blech.) The ODBC 3.0 SDK I needed for this was on Microsoft's web site. It may be possible to replace MS SQL Server with GNU SQL Server in future, so a glue-like approach of this type may insulate db server changes which you may desire later. You have some really odd characters in your post, which you might want to get fixed... (Some of your 0x20 spaces are coming out 0xa0.) -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.