[plug] connecting to windoze databases from linux

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Simon Scott wrote:
> 
>         Think of the problem in reverse - put all your data onto Linux, and
> then share it to MS products via ODBC.

Agreed.

>         I think MySQL and pgsql have ODBC drivers, but I cant comment on how
> stable/effective they are.

They are fine, although they are only for Windows, not Macintosh.  Well,
I guess that's not much of a problem unless you're a Macintosh person.

>         I dont know of any ODBC *clients* for linux however.

They exist.  http://www.jepstone.net/FreeODBC/.

>         I would like to know how to connect my linux system to a windoze
>         machine and get data from a MS database, either by connecting to an
>         Access database (*.mdb type), or by connecting to a running sql
>         server 7.0.

Yes, you can, see http://www.freetds.org.

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