>We have a problem in my office. We have some perl scripts that communicate with out switches to activate and deactivate ports. Well these scripts use foxpro tables, and now since we are converting our vfp tables to MS SQL Server we need to be able to connect to the server through perl.
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>So, has anyone been successfull in connecting to a MSSQL Server with perl?
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>Well, we cant. So we found some other possiable solutions. One is use a PostgreSQL server, which we can connect to fine though perl. Has anyone every used this software? Or know anything about it. Im kinda reluctant to use a free database server developed by some guy nobody knows for our main prodection server.
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Take a look at http://search.cpan.org/doc/JURL/DBD-ODBC-0.28/ODBC.pm and http://www.algonet.se/~sommar/mssql/docs/mssql-sqllib.html