Re: Connecting Linux to Microsoft SQL Server

Alexandre, I have had a similar expence with RaQ3 boxes. Postgress I think is needed so the WebAdmin manger interface can keep track of what the server configurations are, otherwise I would have turned it off. You could look at using Postgress and PHP instead od MySQL. Postgress is ``better'' then MySQL, but at the time I did not know how to use Postgress. I turned telnet on and manually compiled & installed MySQL, Apache and PHP, did a bit of tuning and set up virtual hosts. Then turned off telnet and put the machine live. It works really well. hth, David. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alexandre Siufy <alex@tiaxa.net> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 7:24 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] Connecting Linux to Microsoft SQL Server > Hi folks, > > I'm in the process of Unix-izing an ASP/SQL Server installation, and I need > some help... > Right now, we have a SQL Server database, running remotely, and I would > like to connect our Linux development machine to that database. > My installation of Linux came with PHP (it's a Cobalt RaQ), but it only > came with the extensions for Postgres and Interbase. > What I need to know is what's the best way to connect PHP, on this Linux > machine, to the SQL Server database. I have full access to both, but I > wouldn't like to install anything on the NT server holding the database, if > possible. > Thanks!