Posted by Robert Klemme on 08/11/05 17:44

Mark D Powell wrote:
> MS SQL Server is ODBC compliant so if you purchase or write an ODBC
> driver you should be able to use if to connect. Search the Internet
> to see if someone offers such a driver.

ODBC is just an interface spec. And it's mostly available in the Windows
world.

A low cost solution for the OP is to write a Java program that uses jTDS
JDBC driver to connect to an SQL Server DB. This will also work on
Solaris because the driver is pure Java (i.e. no native code). HTH

Kind regards

robert

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