Re: MS SQL databse connecting

Yoshi, Regardless if you use a commercial or free driver, the only thing you need to compile with is iODBC, as a Driver Manager. You can then drop in any ODBC-compliant driver fairly seamlessly. A Howto is available at www.iodbc.org, but it's mostly a matter of getting the iODBC SDK and compiling --with-iodbc. Also, while our drivers are not Open Source, they are free for low-use environments (2 concurrent database connections). Please let me know if I may assist in any way. Best regards, Andrew --------------------------------------- Andrew Hill - OpenLink Software Director Technology Evangelism eBusiness Infrastructure Technology http://www.openlinksw.com On 3/19/01 11:54 AM, "Michael Kimsal" <michael@tapinternet.com> wrote: > 55 projects found for query 'odbc' > > Most of these are simply projects that have the word ODBC > in their description someplace. There seem to be only a handful > of libraries, and some (openlink/easysoft) are commercial > offerings. > > I still have not come across any ODBC driver that I can get > a binary or source for, which is free, that I can compile under > Linux to talk ODBC to databases. > > What am I missing? I don't think I'm missing anything. I don't think > any are out there - freetds was going to be working on something, > I thought, but apparently that got delayed/shelved. > > > > > > Yoshi Melrose wrote: > >> have you tried out http://freshmeat.net ? do a search for >> odbc, you'll find >> a few. :) >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Michael Kimsal" <michael@tapinternet.com> >> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> >> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 9:01 AM >> Subject: Re: [PHP] 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. >>> >