From: Shashank Date <ADATE@...>
Date: 2002-09-23T21:30:48+09:00
Subject: Re: hurdles moving ruby programs from NT to Linux

Also, take a look at :
www.freetds.org
www.sqsh.org.

HTH,

-- shanko

"andrew queisser" <andrew_queisser@hp.com> wrote in message
news:ad2f1094.0209200937.55d7d3fa@posting.google.com...
> I've been using some Ruby programs on NT to access data on Oracle and
> MS SQLServer databases on two servers on our network. I've been using
> ADO but I'd be happy with ODBC or some other interface as well. The
> queries aren't fancy and there's not a whole lot of data being sent
> around so speed isn't the primary concern.
>
> Now I'd like to run the same scripts on a Linux box. Of course I don't
> have ADO anymore but I can't seem to find a direct way to access
> SQLServer. I've done some Google searches and found iODBC and unixODBC
> but they don't seem to allow me to go to SQLServer directly.
>
> What are my options?
>
> Thanks much,
> Andrew Queisser