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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=558083910-04072006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Hi Jani,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=558083910-04072006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>You can definitely access MS SQL DBs from Erlang. Take a
look at the FreeTDS driver (<A
href="http://www.freetds.org">www.freetds.org</A>) and the unixODBC manager (<A
href="http://www.unixodbc.org">www.unixodbc.org</A>).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> owner-erlang-questions@erlang.org
[mailto:owner-erlang-questions@erlang.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Yani
Dzhurov<BR><B>Sent:</B> 04 July 2006 10:43 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
erlang-questions@erlang.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> odbc and MS sql
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I’ve been reading through the docs
of odbc module and tried to establish connection to a Microsoft sql server….but
without any success:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">{error,"No SQL-driver information
available. Connection to database failed."}<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I’ve tried it to run it both from
windows and freebsd machine.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Does anybody know which odbc drivers
I exactly need? And is it possible to connect to MS SQL server with erlang app,
at all ?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks in
advance,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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