Re: [MacPerl] Database Connectivity

["Thomas R. Kimpton" <tkimpton@maned.com>]

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> Have you had good luck finding, buying or building DBD's for the Mac?  I have not seen much premade, but maybe I haven't looked hard enough.  I have wanted to try my hand at building a couple of DBDs on the Mac as soon as I get a few spare moments.  Even doing that, however, I have given up hope for most DBMS packages, because AFAIK part of the DBD for most of them is a proprietary library supplied as a binary.
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> My impression of ODBC has been the same as yours, but I had considered it because it seems to get around these problems.
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> -David-

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I haven't monkeyed around with it (yet) and don't know if it works on
the Mac, but, here's an excerpt from the FreeTDS home page:

"FreeTDS is a project to document and implement the TDS (Tabular
DataStream) protocol. TDS is used by Sybase and Microsoft for
client to database server communications. The FreeTDS project
will implement many call level interfaces including: DB-Lib, CT
-Lib, ODBC, JDBC, and Perl DBI."

The home page is:

http://metalab.unc.edu/freetds/

If you're not going to be working with Sybase (or SQL Server) then
this probably won't be much help :-).

Tom.
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