From my experiences at Lehman Brothers I found that the DBD::Sybase approach worked very well.

One of the in-house applications that I was responsible for maintaining took data from both Sybase databases and SQL Server to do all sorts of reporting. Everyone assumed (myself included until I was told) that all the data lived on Sybase. The stuff were were pulling from SQL Server was generated by SMS.

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Peter L. Berghold --- Peter@Berghold.Net
"Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it."
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