In the April issue of Linux Journal (the one with catchy header "Quicktime on Linux" and with the interview with Robert Love), Andrew Trice discusses how he used FreeTDS thru DBD::Sybase to connect to MS SQL 2000. Andrew used the following freetds.conf

[fillinhostname]
    host = fillinhostname
    port = someportnumber
    tds version = 7.0
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IIRC someone used a reference to that same LJ article but unfortunatly I can't find the node_id...

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Beatnik
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