Monday, April 11, 2011

Connecting to SQL Server from Linux/Suse/Snow Leopard

Ken Collins from EngineYard released TinyTds, a ruby gem that uses dblib to connect to MS SQL server. It has no hassles of managing ODBC connection.  Read the blog for detailed explanation.

Before TinyTDS:

The steps for setting libraries to connect to MS SQL on *nix environment. Follow the steps religiously to succeed.


Enter TinyTDS:

TinyTDS helps ODBC-less connection which means no pain of installing all the ODBC libraries.
 It took a min to set-up the connection using the steps.



Goodies: Steps on Mac OSx Snow Leopard

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