<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Cameron Simpson <<a href="mailto:cs@zip.com.au">cs@zip.com.au</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On 13Oct2008 17:10, Franck Y <<a href="mailto:franck110@gmail.com">franck110@gmail.com</a>> wrote: | I have to query a remote database that run under MSQL and get the result | within a shell/perl script ? | Does anyone of you did that ? I would not like to purchase a ODBC driver | since it is for a project at school </div>I think you want the FreeTDS package: <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/freetds/" target="_blank">http://freshmeat.net/projects/freetds/</a> >From that you can do queries without using OBDC (which is an API, not a protocol, I learnt to my horror:-). I have used FreeTDS, but not extensively. -- Cameron Simpson <<a href="mailto:cs@zip.com.au">cs@zip.com.au</a>> DoD#743 <a href="http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/" target="_blank">http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/</a> -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines</a> </blockquote></div> Exactly what i was looking for Franck -- Franck </div>