From: Scott Lillibridge <scott@...>
Date: 2009-06-13T08:39:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Connecting to MS SQL Server 2000

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:47 PM, jackster the jackle <
johnsheahan@sflistdb.com> wrote:

> I need to be able to querry the database on a Microsoft SQL Server 2000
> from my Ruby script.
>
> My only experience has been to connect to a MySQL database and I'm
> hoping that someone from this august forum might be able to point me in
> the right direction?
>
> thanks
>
> jack
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
I have had good luck with the ODBC bindings here
http://www.ch-werner.de/rubyodbc/. The hardest part would be getting FreeTDS
setup and configured. Are you connecting from a non-Windows box to the SQL
Server?

Scott

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