Dear Monks, greetings

I need to connect to a MSSQL2008 database from my winXP laptop. I have googled and searched on PM for an answer, but I got a bit confused!

I wasn't sure wether to go for:

DBI, or DBD::ODBC (am I correct in assuming those two packages will only work from Linux/Unix box?)

Win32::ODBC (some say its no longer supported by Mssql2008)

Win32::ADO or Win32::OLE (which is better!? but I thought one issues ADO command using Win32::OLE)

Or Win32::Sql (Does it work with MSSQL2008? And I could NOT install win32::sql package as it was not found in any of my repositories in PPM - which contains all PPM respositories that i know of!)

Can someone please enlighten me??THANKS!



Blackadder

In reply to What is the best Perl library to use to connect and access MSSQL2008 Database from winXP PC? by blackadder

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