Re: Database Client
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>
> In article <[🔎] 35F3E690.89D5B420@infotech.acu.edu>,
> Kent West <kent.west@infotech.acu.edu> wrote:
> >Hi All.
> > I'd DEARLY love to get Linux established on my university campus, but
> >one of the stumbling blocks is that one of our major apps is based on an
> >SQLServer 6.5 database running on an NT Server. The clients are all
> >Win95/98/NT based. Is there anyway for me to connect to the SQLServer
> >data using a Linux client?
>
> I think so, there is undoubtedly a Perl DBD driver for it so you
> can use DBI and DBD to talk to the database. That is supposing you
> want to use perl for the job, but there is also a command line sql
> client written in perl that comes with DBI.
>
> Hmm... I checked, there is not really something for M$ databases,
> but they supposedly use the same protocol as Sybase, so the Sybase
> stuff _might_ work with a M$ SQL server.
>
> See also the FreeTDS project at http://tbwa.volcano.org/freetds/
>
> > I at first thought postgresql might do it, but after installing it I
> >can't even figure out how to get it to run (I can't even find the pgsql
> >that a Postgresql tutorial mentions).
>
> Postgres _is_ a database. You don't want to install a database,
> you just want a way to connect to the remote database right?
>
No, I do not want to install a database.
Yes, I just want to connect to the remote SQLServer database. (I'm not
very well-versed in database stuff.) I basically need to be able to do
two things: 1) Manipulate the data, and 2) print reports of the data
(we're currently using Crystal Reports in a Windows environment to
generate the reports).
> Mike.
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