[sllug-members]: Microsoft SQL Server

[Jackman]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Where I work, everything revolves around a row of very large servers
with MS Windows NT running Microsoft SQL Server.  To connect to this
server, I use primarily Microsoft SQL Query Analyzer and Microsoft
Enterprise Manager.  My work is generally very tedious, mostly because
MS software doesn't script very well.  I can bring my laptop into
work, however, or install cygwin and work from those machines if I so
desired.  Scripting and collecting data would be so much easier on a
linux box.  Still, I know that MySQL is the SQL database preference on
Linux systems and so I am having a difficult time finding anything
that advertises itself being compatible with Microsoft SQL Server.
Does it even matter?  Thank you for your help and I look forward to
your input.

Andrew Jackman.
W7MEZ.