[sllug-members]: Microsoft SQL Server

[Jeremiah Roth]

On Apr 1, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Jackman wrote:
> 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.

FreeTDS is the best way that I've found for connecting to MS SQL from  
linux.  There's a 'tsql' utility you can use, but I've never used it  
except to test a connection.  I use pymssql in Python, and there's  
something similar for Perl, though I forget the name of it.  As far as  
a gui tool there's TOra (http://tora.sourceforge.net/), but I've never  
used that either.

-Jeremiah