Using Perl under Linux to connect SQLServer2000 via UNIXODBC

Absrtact: Ms never provides SQL Server for Linux, so don't try to install SQL Server on a Linux system, but you can connect to the SQL Server database of Windows systems via ODBC;

A description of the test environment and Linux connection SQL Server;

Test environment:

GCC 3.3.3, kernel 2.6.5-1, glibc 2.3.3-27, Perl 5.8.3

About SQL Server instructions:

MS has never provided SQL Server for Linux, so don't try to install SQL Server on a Linux system, but you can connect to the SQL Server database of Windows systems via ODBC;

Windows Server 2003 user attention:

SQL Server installed on the Windows Server 2003 system does not open port 1433, so please Windows2003 users must install SQL Server SP3 Pudding after installing SQL Server

Download related software unixodbc, FreeTDS and DBD-ODBC

First you need to download 3 files:

ODBC for Linux Systems

Unixodbc-2.2.8.tar.gz (http://www.unixodbc.org)

Connect to SQL Server or Sybase driver

Freetds-0.62.4.tar.gz (http://www.freetds.org)

Perl's ODBC module

Dbd-odbc-1.12.tar.gz (http://cpan.perl.org)

Put the downloaded three files into the same directory