From owner-freebsd-database Fri Apr 7 4:50:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (news.IAE.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E3537B8D2 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 04:50:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@bowtie.nl) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.9.1/8.9.1) with IAEhv.nl id NAA10991; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:50:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bowtie.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00577; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:49:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@bowtie.nl) Message-Id: <200004071149.NAA00577@bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Richard Grace" Cc: database@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS SQL and ODBC drivers In-reply-to: rgrace's message of Fri, 07 Apr 2000 14:30:23 +1000. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 13:49:29 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm trying to find out if there are any MS SQL ODBC drivers for FreeBSD. > > So far I've installed the iODBC driver manager, but it seems there is no > driver to support connection to a MS SQL server by ODBC. > > Ideally I would like to be able to test the connectivity before we commit to > buy any particular product, as we are not sure this is the best way to > implement things. > > The application is a web page, running Java servlets with ODBC connection to > the database. The database must be a MS SQL server running ODBC, but I'd > also welcome any suggestions regarding other (cheap) ways to connect to MS > SQL from a Java servlet, or anything else which can be generated from an ASP > development. > Why don't you use JDBC? Marc. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message