From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 30 23:33:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from morphy.ssi.net (morphy.ssi.net [209.251.96.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FDD515AE3 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 23:33:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billm@flink.com) Received: from admin (n254.dial.flink.com [209.251.97.254]) by morphy.ssi.net (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id BAA23547 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 01:33:00 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Bill McMilleon" To: Subject: Connection options: FreeBSD 3.3R<->MS SQL Server 6.5? Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 01:32:58 -0500 Message-ID: <000301bf0bd6$ce22b070$6401a8c0@mchome> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What options are available that would allow one to access a Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 database from the following applications under FreeBSD: -PHP 3.0.12 -Java and/or Java Server Pages -Python 1.5.2 -Perl 5 I would assume ODBC would be the way to go as all three listed above should have no problem getting connected to ODBC data sources, but I imagine I would have to run an ODBC driver of some kind on either the FreeBSD box, the NT/SQL box or both. Please clarify in "I'm a windows idiot" terms how I might best accomplish this. :) TIA, Bill McMilleon Alltel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message