ODBC question

David Berube form1 at cooltech.org
Mon Apr 11 09:04:01 EDT 2005


Hello,

Try FreeTDS.

http://www.freetds.org/

Take it easy,

David J Berube

Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:

>So, I have been tasked with writing some PHP code on a Linux system
>running Apache, PHP4, etc. However, the database that "they" want the
>interface for is an MS-SQL database. After doing some research, unixODBC
>is the way to go. The problem is, the only way that I can find to do
>this is to use the ODBC to ODBC bridge from EasySoft, which costs $1000.
>Does anyone know how to connect to an MS-SQL server from a Linux box
>without spending $1K (or moving the database to MySQL)?
>
>
>TIA,
>Kenny
>  
>





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