From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 17 9:13:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D138B37B401 for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:13:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE25343ED1 for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:13:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com) Received: from spiral (spiral.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBHHDMka025571; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:13:22 GMT From: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> To: "Martin McCormick" <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Are There any Free Tools to do Remote SQL Queries? Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:13:21 -0000 Message-ID: <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKAEDKKHAA.barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> 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 IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200212171708.gBHH8HvD067370@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-WBT-Authenticated-User: bb X-Scanned-By: slate/MIMEDefang 2.27 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Martin: Haven't needed to try it myself, but how about a Perl DBI/DBD solution? - Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Martin > McCormick > We may need to make sql queries to a Microsoft server > from a FreeBSD system. I am in an area of which I am totally > unfamiliar and there is a bit of a time factor involved. > > The object is to retrieve text files containing the > results of the query so that scripts can be generated based upon > the information. That, I can handle. The problem is in figuring > out the best way to access the MS server from here. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message