Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-20 Thread Dennis Gearon
Michael Kimsa wrote: >What am I missing? What you are missing, Michael, is that ODBC is for access to a proprietary, commercial product from a monopolist megalith. To use ODBC, on is accessing (pun intended) a non open source database, i.e., you gots to pay M$. This means for someone to write a

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Yoshi Melrose
We knew what you mean. ;) - Original Message - From: "Andrew Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Yoshi Melrose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Work" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [P

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Yoshi Melrose
EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 11:13 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting > Yoshi, > > Regardless if you use a commercial or free driver, the only thing you need > to compile with is iODBC, as a Driver Manager. You can then drop in any > ODBC-co

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Andrew Hill
gt; >> >> >> >> Yoshi Melrose wrote: >> >>> have you tried out http://freshmeat.net ? do a search for odbc, you'll find >>> a few. :) >>> >>> - Original Message - >>> From: "Michael Kimsal" <

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Andrew Hill
Melrose wrote: > >> have you tried out http://freshmeat.net ? do a search for odbc, you'll find >> a few. :) >> >> - Original Message ----- >> From: "Michael Kimsal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Yoshi Melrose
nt: Monday, March 19, 2001 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting > 55 projects found for query 'odbc' > > Most of these are simply projects that have the word ODBC > in their description someplace. There seem to be only a handful > of libraries, and some

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Michael Kimsal
elved. Yoshi Melrose wrote: > have you tried out http://freshmeat.net ? do a search for odbc, you'll find > a few. :) > > - Original Message - > From: "Michael Kimsal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Yoshi Melrose
have you tried out http://freshmeat.net ? do a search for odbc, you'll find a few. :) - Original Message - From: "Michael Kimsal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Michael Kimsal
Am I the only one who can not find any free ODBC drivers for Linux? I see countless references to ODBC driver managers, but no ODBC drivers themselves - not free ones anyway. I'll have to second the other poster's comments re: FreeTDS. It works fine, and we're looking at using SQLRelay in conjun

RE: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Mark Roedel
> -Original Message- > From: Yoshi Melrose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 4:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting > > > Depends on whether or not you're using a windows server or > lin

Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting

2001-03-19 Thread Yoshi Melrose
Costas, Depends on whether or not you're using a windows server or linux server. I've found that it's much easier to use MSSQL from a windows server since you can use the mssql_connect commands. for some reason or another (probably lack of configuration knowledge in linux) i've had problems runni