Re: MS SQL databse connecting

Am I the only one who can not find any free ODBC drivers for Linux? I see countless references to ODBC driver managers, but no ODBC drivers themselves - not free ones anyway. I'll have to second the other poster's comments re: FreeTDS. It works fine, and we're looking at using SQLRelay in conjunction, to give us connection pooling benefits too. We're fortunate to count the FreeTDS author as a (mostly!) regular member of our area PHP user group, and his contribution to this area (unix to ms/sybase database talking) can't be understated. :) Yoshi Melrose wrote: > Costas, > > Depends on whether or not you're using a windows server or linux server. > I've found that it's much easier to use MSSQL from a windows server since > you can use the mssql_connect commands. for some reason or another (probably > lack of configuration knowledge in linux) i've had problems running the > mssql_connect commands. I'd recommend using odbc for linux, and mssql for > windows. just my experience. > > btw, i'm assuming you mean mssql, not mysql. ;p > > Yoshi