From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 21 9:36:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.telecom.ksu.edu (gateway-1.telecom.ksu.edu [129.130.63.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1CE637BCA7 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:36:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beemern@telecom.ksu.edu) Received: from sioux.telecom.ksu.edu(129.130.60.32) by pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma007748; Fri, 21 Jul 00 11:36:19 -0500 Message-ID: <39787BD9.B97F7C6F@telecom.ksu.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:35:38 -0500 From: nathan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: perl/ODBC on fbsd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For reasons beyond my control, i need to get data from a freebsd system into a m$ sql7 database. unfortunately, db support for perl on fbsd is slim, ESPECIALLY for m$ products (imagine that) heh i tried dl'ing and using the ODBC driver for the DBI interface to perl. it compiles, but core dumps when tryin to access the driver. unfortunately, it uses a generic db driver (iodbc) which the readme claims is still in alpha stages. anyone out there had any luck talking to m$ sql7 with perl?? the only other option i have, would be to setup a temporary mysql db, and, then write my perl to populate THAT table with my data, and then use sql7's db import features to try and get the data that way. which i can't be sure will work either. thanks! nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message