All of my Perl development has been on platforms running some form of Unix (mostly Solaris and Linux), connecting to Oracle or MySQL. We currently have a need to connect from our Solaris 5.9 servers to a MS SQL Server database controlled by another team.

Several suggestions that have been batted around internally include:

  1. Purchasing an ODBC driver and using DBD::ODBC.
  2. Connecting via DBD::Sybase using FreeTDS.
  3. Putting up an IIS webserver and using it to run a web service to translate queries from our servers.

Considerations:

While the purchase of an ODBC driver might seem the most straightforward solution, such things are often much more difficult bureaucratically than technically. As a contractor, I have no idea how to navigate the purchase order waters of my client company.

I ran into quite a bit of trouble getting the DBD-Sybase-1.07 and FreeTDS (0.63) libraries installed and have not yet found anyone who has been successful in using DBD::Sybase to connect to a MS SQL database from a Solaris platform. Has anyone out there been successful?

I have no experience with IIS.

I am very open to suggestions and recommendations.


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In reply to How to connect to MS SQL Server from Unix by ptum

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