[Templates] Connection to a MSSQL server

[Leo Lapworth]

On 9 Jul 2006, at 18:43, Mark Schoonover wrote:

> klaushorsten wrote:
>> Hallo,
>>
>> can someone help me to connect to a Mssql Database? On Windows.
>>
>> I think this has do be done via ODBC.
>
>
> It's not exactly done like this. You need to install the FreeTDS

The other (i think simplier) alternative is to run 'dbiproxy'
http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.51/dbiproxy.PL on a Windoz machine.

Then connect from perl on your Linux box via that.

Leo