From owner-freebsd-database Wed Jun 10 10:23:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA20744 for freebsd-database-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 10:23:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA20738 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 10:23:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0yjo5U-0005tg-00; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 09:51:00 -0700 Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 09:50:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Craig Spannring cc: Angelo Nardone , freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TDDS? Was Re: SQL server, Oracle In-Reply-To: <199806091726.KAA02592@bangkok.office.cdsnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Craig Spannring wrote: > Angelo Nardone writes: > > I need to make a query to an Oracle (NT) server, and a SQL server from a > > process > > runing in FreeBSD. > > Do anybody know how ? > > > I don't know about Oracle, but I have some programs running on FreeBSD > that access a MS SQLServer database. > > Please don't judge me to harshly but what I'm doing right now is > running a Java RMI server on an NT machine. The program I have on the > FreeBSD side is a Java application that connects to the ODBC-JDBC > bridge via the RMI server on the NT box. It ain't pretty, but it > works. There are also a few companies that have JDBC drivers that can > talk to SQLServer. This is due to the fact that Microsoft does not make a Type 4 JDBC driver (a 3rd party company does). Oracle makes a Type 4 JDBC driver, so you won't need any middleware. This driver is available as a free download. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message