In article <003201c7f727$07b9c9b0$0300a8c0 at Laptop>, Tony Barratt <tbarratt at mibtree.com> wrote: > Hello List, > > I need to access some data a MS-SQL server ie run a stored procedure or > user-defined function or a select every so often maybe 3 times a day. > Have centos 4.5 on intel xeon. Is there an obvious certain-to-succeed > approach? > > perl DBI + ODBC spings to mind, have not tried it yet - cannot access the > systems yet - need to make a good plan. > Am a bit concerned cos I dont know of an alternative to perl DBI + ODBC and > I have heard a few anecdotes about how ODBC possibly problematic.. > > Any suggestions gratefully received and would be pleased to read the nice > manual (if one is identified!). Have a look for the packages FreeTDS and sqsh. Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org