Just to clear something up, I have never implied that if you are forced to use something that you don't want to use, that it is imperative that you quit. I was curious if you had tried FreeTDS, not to say that's the best solution. I did try FreeTDS in a similar situation, and I had no luck with it. So I chose to use ODBC.

I was looking for similarities between my own case and yours. I was not intending to piss you off in any manner. It's been my experience that PerlMonks is a place where I can ask a question to my problem and get an almost immediate response, often involving things I don't know about. I welcome these since sometimes while TMTOWTDI, my WTDI is not as good as what I get in response. But, I also understand that when my boss' WTDI is the only WTDI, I have to just put what I get as responses into my learning experience and throw it aside.

I'm going to end up agreeing with you, Ovid. A response that says "Why don't you just quit?" or "I would quit" doesn't aid the discussion. If I don't think I can aid in discussion, then I generally won't post. I felt that my post yesterday would either aid you, or me, by the results you possibly might have had with FreeTDS.

Thanks for broaching the topic. It is important that we keep PM up to an expected level of etiquette. That way, later if I post something similar to what spurred this, it will at least be given the benefit of a doubt that I am not saying "There's Only One Way To Do It." It can actually be read as why did you do X? What were your experiences with Y that led you to choose X instead? And it won't be considered hostile.

If I had prefaced my statement with the fact that you are among the monks I respect here, I wouldn't have been the straw to break the camel's back (sorry, the pun was inevitable) but we would have missed out on some important commentary.

I hope that I've fully cleared the air now.

ALL HAIL BRAK!!!

In reply to RE: Why do monks put up with it? by PsychoSpunk
in thread Why do monks put up with it? by Ovid

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