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On Fri, 10 Nov 1995, Ralph Shillington wrote:

> One of my only reasons for using NT is "easy" access to the SQLServer
> database. If Win32 Perl had an ODBC or DBLIB extension similar to sybperl
> that would be fantastic! Is anyone working on this?
>
> Ralph Shillington, rshillington@msn.com
> Ottawa, Canada.
>
You better believe it :-)

ftp://ftp.access.digex.net/pub/access/psii/iodbc.zip

It's not a Sybperl work-alike, but it has some neat features, like
embedded SQL in your HTML documents (I discourage this, although it is
pretty cool), and template files, which let you specify an SQL Statement,
HTML header, detail, and footer info. The detail is repeated for each
record. Crude, but effective. It's freely redistributable under the
General Public License.

Have fun,

Brian Jepson (bjepson@conan.ids.net)
Director of Advanced Technology, Prosoft Systems International, Inc.

On Fri, 10 Nov 95 01:23:14 UT, you wrote:

>One of my only reasons for using NT is "easy" access to the SQLServer
>database. If Win32 Perl had an ODBC or DBLIB extension similar to sybperl
>that would be fantastic! Is anyone working on this?

I have implemented an extension for DB2/2 CLI which is pretty close to
ODBC.
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-- Andreas Kaiser -- internet: ak@ananke.s.bawue.de
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> From: ak@ananke.s.bawue.de (Andreas Kaiser)
>
> On Fri, 10 Nov 95 01:23:14 UT, you wrote:
>
> >One of my only reasons for using NT is "easy" access to the SQLServer
> >database. If Win32 Perl had an ODBC or DBLIB extension similar to sybperl
> >that would be fantastic! Is anyone working on this?
>
> I have implemented an extension for DB2/2 CLI which is pretty close to
> ODBC.

Sigh. A full DBI compatible DB2 driver has been developed already:

DBI amcO Generic Database Interface (see DBD modules) DBIML
DBD::
::Oracle amcO Oracle Driver for DBI TIMB
::Ingres cmcO Ingres Driver for DBI TIMB
::Informix adcO Informix Driver for DBI ADESC
::mSQL amcO Msql Driver for DBI ADESC
::DB2 adcO DB2 Driver for DBI MHM
::Sybase idcO Sybase Driver for DBI MEWP
::QBase amcO QBase Driver for DBI BENLI

MHM Mike Moran <mhm@austin.ibm.com>

Take a look at http://www.hermetica.com/technologia/DBI

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I've CC'd this to the list and Mike.

Tim.

ak@ananke.s.bawue.de (Andreas Kaiser) writes:
|>
|> I have implemented an extension for DB2/2 CLI which is pretty close to
|> ODBC.

Are you using the DBI/DBD interfaces? Do you have blob support?

Mike
mhm@austin.ibm.com