Hi,

I need some help on how to connect to a SQL Server database from one server to another.

A perl script is on a Ubuntu server which I need to read data from a SQL Server table on another server which is a Windows 2008 R2 64 bit.

On the Ubuntu server DBD::OBDC or DBD::W32OBDC are both installed.

From what I gather is the the connection string involves the creation of a DSN as the data source.

eg.
my $data_source = q/dbi:ODBC:datasource_name/;

What I'm not sure is how to create the data source in this case.

Do I create a DSN on the windows server or do I simply connect to the database with the server ip address and database name.

Usually if I run the script on the same server as the database I simply create the DSN.

Any guidance is appreciated.

Thank-you
David J.

In reply to SQL Server connect from Linux to Windows 2008 by anotherdj

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