My current test environment at work is as follows:

I made an attempt (months ago, and I know FreeTDS has leapt since then) to get the FreeTDS libs working on a connection with MS SQL 7.0. Abject failure was what I accomplished. I read every HowTo and various readme I could find, and got nada. This was in a very tight situation where the connection had to be brought up ASAP, so I went to ODBC. But as I said, FreeTDS has made mucho progress since then, and anyway it was probably user error. :)

My advice is keep sybperl around, but migrate any new projects to DBI. Trust me. It's not that you have that chance to change DBMS platforms, but it is something that is always nice to be prepared for. If you switch in a year and 75% of your codebase is sybperl, it takes time to rebuild; if you switch in 5 years and 20% of your codebase is in sybperl, then you have avoided a major bullet. The key here is that you'd rather be flexible enough just in case. Plus, what if they bring in some new DBMS to sit next to your Sybase DBMS. What then? DBI facilitates communication is what then.

ALL HAIL BRAK!!!

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

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