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From: "Robert Bresner" <rbresner at olf dot com>
Subject: Re: Connect to MS SQL with Sybperl ?
Date: Dec 4 1998 4:34PM
Good point. I'm using 6.5 ....
Anyone with a success story that could identify my mistakes ?
Michael Peppler wrote:
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> Robert Bresner writes:
> > I'm dreaming, aren't I? Can't be done, can it?
> > When I take a simple empty database script which
> > we use daily to clean out a Sybase database, and
> > try using it on a MS SQL database, I get
> > SYBASE ERROR: ( 20012 ) Unable to determine Net-Library error ( Sev: 2 )
> > dblogin() failed at EmptyDB.pl line 87, chunk 5.
> >
> > So I'm wondering, is it possible to fool SybPerl to connect
> > to mssql ?
>
> Yes, for MS-SQL 6.5 and lower. For MS-SQL 7.0 I have heard that MS has
> changed the protocol and that backwards compatibility is not
> maintained, so the Sybase libs won't work anymore (although I don't
> have any first hand experience of this...)
>
> Michael
> --
> Michael Peppler -||- Data Migrations Inc.
> mpeppler@mbay.net -||- http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler
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