Accessing SQL Server

[Rick Stevens]

Richard Crawford wrote:
> Is there such a thing as a Linux client for SQL Server?  The only reason at 
> this point that I keep a Windoze box at work is that I sometimes need to 
> query our user database, which lives on a remote computer running SQL Server 
> on Windows, and I can't find a front end client for it for Linux.

There are several methods you can use via the OBDC mechanism,
UnixODBC and FreeTDS.  They're not super simple to set up, but they
do work.
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