Re: MS SQL databse connecting

Whups, sorry - looks like that should have been addressed to Michael. Best regards, Andrew On 3/19/01 12:13 PM, "Andrew Hill" <ahill@openlinksw.com> wrote: > 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. >>>> >>