Posted by ljb on 05/27/05 03:29

mike_walsh@mindspring.com wrote:
>...
> Can you elaborate on freetds? The application is developed on a Windows
> environment but will be deployed on a Sun so I actually need to solve both
> problems.
>...

I can't help with the ODBC part because I haven't used it. I have used
freetds. Home site is http://www.freetds.org and project site is
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetds/
This is an open-source implementation of the TDS protocol, which was
developed by Sybase and also used by Microsoft. Freetds includes 3
libraries which aim to be call-compatible with Sybase's CT-lib, DB-lib, and
ODBC library. I've found freetds to be very usable, although the developers
still consider it "alpha" test. I use freetds with the PHP sybase-ct extension.

Don't forget that there are two Sybase databases, too: ASA (a.k.a. SQL
Anywhere) and ASE. There are differences but freetds talks to both. I'm
using freetds on Linux to talk to ASA (running on Netware, if you can
believe it).

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