Re: Connecting Linux to Microsoft SQL Server

Alexandre, You could compile in the ODBC support for PHP. That would let you connect. - What to you mean by ``connect''? David. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alexandre Siufy <alex@tiaxa.net> To: David Newcomb <davidn@vnvi.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 7:59 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Connecting Linux to Microsoft SQL Server > David, > > We'll be migrating from SQL Server, but for the moment, I actually need to > connect to it, so using MySQL or Postgres won't help :( But thanks for your > report... > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Newcomb [mailto:davidn@vnvi.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 8:52 AM > To: Alexandre Siufy; php-db@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] 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.