use DBI. Yes, very nice.

But as far as I can tell, I need to get the Open Client installed and configured properly, which is unsupported and undocumented, to make the DBD work, but it looks like freeTDS will work too. I'm not sure about Sybperl, but I expect the same from it.

My initial thoughts are that I should use DBI, but we have lots of scripts here that use sybperl, and it may be better to stick with a company standard.

Our sybase servers are Sun systems (Thank goodness! We already have too damn many boxes that need regular reboots!) I'm not sure what "those" you are referring to.

Do you use freeTDS? It looks pretty promising. Have you tried the Sybase Open Client for Linux? How well do the system(s) you have used work?

Oracle, huh? Well, we have Sybase up and running and I don't even want to guess what it would cost to switch, even if the server itself were free. Forgive me if I don't demand a switch. Anyhow, for what I'm going to be doing, mySql would be fine. If I use sybase, it's one less piece of software that I personally have to maintain.


TGI says moo

In reply to Re: Re: DBD::Sybase or Sybperl on Linux by TGI
in thread DBD::Sybase or Sybperl on Linux by TGI

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