[R] RODBC on linux

[Armstrong, Whit]

Thanks, everyone.

I'll give freeTDS a try.

Cheers,
Whit


-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:17 AM
To: Marc Schwartz
Cc: Armstrong, Whit; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] RODBC on linux

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Marc Schwartz wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 17:52 -0400, Armstrong, Whit wrote:
> > Anyone out there using Linux RODBC and unixODBC to connect to a 
> > Microsoft SQL server?
> > 
> > If possible can someone post a sample .odbc.ini file?
> > 
> > I saw a few discussions on the archives a few years ago, but no 
> > config file details were available.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Whit
> 
> Whit,
> 
> Do you have a Linux ODBC driver for SQL Server?  unixODBC is simply 
> the driver manager, not the driver itself.
> 
> MS does not offer (not surprisingly) an ODBC driver for Unix/Linux.
> There are resources available however and these might be helpful:
> 
> http://www.sommarskog.se/mssql/unix.html
> 
> Note that Easysoft provides (at a cost) an ODBC-ODBC bridge for 
> Unix/Linux platforms which supports ODBC connections to SQL Server:
> 
> http://www.easysoft.com/products/data_access/odbc_odbc_bridge/index.ht
> ml

Several people have successfully used that, from the earliest days of
RODBC: I believe it was part of Michael Lapsley's motivation to write
RODBC.

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