> Of course Easysoft OOB is even better as far as
> compatibility/reliability are concerned, albeit at a higher cost.
You're kidding, right?
In production use, Easysoft is absolutely lovely bar for one minor 'feature' (at least in the version I had) - if the NT side of the Easysoft bridge hits the full number of permitted threads it then refuses to accept any further connections without a stop/start on the service. I got bored of trying to get their support to actually try and do anything to resolve this when the first six requests produced the reply of "no it doesn't do that, you must have done something wrong". We'd had too much customer downtime already, and I wasn't willing to leave something that unreliable in production so I ripped it out and switched to FreeTDS.
If you're running a fairly low-load system, the Easysoft bridge is just about acceptable; in the sort of environment I was working in (50 concurrent connections average, peaking higher) it just couldn't cut it. DBD::Sybase with FreeTDS performs ~100% faster under heavy loads, speaks natively to the SQL Server (i.e. no ODBC overhead), and has worked without a hitch since we put it into production.
- Matt S Trout
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