Helping a user migrate an odbc app to Wine

Rolf Kalbermatter r.kalbermatter at hccnet.nl
Thu Feb 8 14:20:30 CST 2007


Boaz Harrosh [mailto:boazharrosh at gmail.com] wrote:

>This is totally not true and it is right there in documentation. (User
guide)

Ok! I stand corrected. Sorry.

>All you do is install mdac downloadable from Microsoft.com, or any MS
product
>like Office. Than run odbcad32.exe to set your DSNs.

I had expected some of these drivers to make use of private APIs that might
not
be available under Wine.

>That's it, works like a charm and is the only known way to man to connect
to
>an MSSQL server from Unix.

Well there is at least FreeTDS unless you need to communicate with the
server
through other means than TCP/IP.

Rolf Kalbermatter




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