unixODBC driver in Red Hat 5?

zhuk0v · 10-19-2010, 05:28 AM

Hi,

My boss has suggested installing the unixODBC driver in one of our Red Hat 5 servers in order to connect to a Microsoft SQL/SERVER database (Windows server)...

Have you tried such a thing? Any disadvantage/advantage worth knowing about it?

Regards.

ionrivera · 10-19-2010, 11:00 PM

I've tried using unixodbc and freetds way back in 2004 and it works fine connecting on our MSSQL database server but with some limitations as far as I can remember. We also did some minor workarounds at some point. It also has a GUI and commandline support.

Maybe things have changed now, you can try it on your testing servers and find out..