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>There are a few ways to use <SPAN
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>Perl</SPAN
> to connect to a <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>SQL Server</SPAN
> using <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>FreeTDS</SPAN
>. </P
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><A
NAME="DBD.SYBASE"
>DBD::Sybase</A
></H2
><P
>The recommended choice is <SPAN
CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
>DBD::Sybase</SPAN
> from Michael Peppler.  Despite the name it works for any Sybase or Microsoft <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>SQL Server</SPAN
>.  <SPAN
CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
>DBD::Sybase</SPAN
> uses the <SPAN
CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
>ct-lib</SPAN
> <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>API</ACRONYM
> and works well. </P
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><A
NAME="DBD.ODBC"
>DBD::ODBC</A
></H2
><P
>You may also use <SPAN
CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
>DBD::ODBC</SPAN
> with the <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>FreeTDS</SPAN
> <SPAN
CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
>ODBC</SPAN
> driver.  You may find this attractive if you're familiar with <SPAN
CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
>DBD::ODBC</SPAN
>.
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><A
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>Finally, you can use <SPAN
CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
>Sybperl</SPAN
>.  Scripts written against <SPAN
CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
>Sybperl</SPAN
> will not run against other databases the way DBI scripts will.  However, it will be familiar ground for those who know <SPAN
CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
>db-lib</SPAN
>.  
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>Example 7-2. Building <SPAN
CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
>DBD::Sybase</SPAN
></B
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><PRE
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><SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>cd DBD-Sybase-0.91</KBD
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>export SYBASE=/usr/local/freetds</KBD
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>perl Makefile.PL</KBD
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>make</KBD
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>su root</KBD
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>Password: </SAMP
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>make install</KBD
></PRE
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>

There will be some output about missing libraries after <KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>perl Makefile.PL</KBD
>. These are normal.
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><P
>The following example will attach to Sybase's public <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>JDBC</ACRONYM
> server and run a simple query (it can be found in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>samples/test.pl</TT
>):

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><A
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></A
><P
><B
>Example 7-3. Connect to a server with <SPAN
CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
>DBD::Sybase</SPAN
></B
></P
><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>#!/usr/bin/perl
#
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI-&#62;connect("dbi:Sybase:server=JDBC", 'guest', 'sybase', {PrintError =&#62; 0});

die "Unable for connect to server $DBI::errstr"
    unless $dbh;

my $rc;
my $sth;

$sth = $dbh-&#62;prepare("select \@\@servername");
if($sth-&#62;execute) {
    while(@dat = $sth-&#62;fetchrow) {
		print "@dat\n";
    }
}</PRE
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>
			</P
><P
><DIV
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><A
NAME="E.G.DBD.ODBC.BUILD"
></A
><P
><B
>Example 7-4. Building <SPAN
CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
>DBD::ODBC</SPAN
></B
></P
><PRE
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><SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>cd DBD-ODBC-0.28</KBD
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>export SYBASE=/usr/local/freetds</KBD
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>export ODBCHOME=/usr/local</KBD
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>export DBI_DSN=dbi:ODBC:JDBC</KBD
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>export DBI_USER=guest</KBD
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>export DBI_PASS=sybase</KBD
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>perl Makefile.PL</KBD
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>make</KBD
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>su root</KBD
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>Password: </SAMP
>
<SAMP
CLASS="PROMPT"
>$ </SAMP
><KBD
CLASS="USERINPUT"
>make install</KBD
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>We used the public  <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>JDBC</ACRONYM
> server logins for our configuration here.  You'll want to replace these with ones suitable to your environment.</P
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><B
>Example 7-5. Connect to a server with <SPAN
CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
>DBD::ODBC</SPAN
></B
></P
><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>#!/usr/bin/perl
#
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI-&#62;connect("dbi:ODBC:JDBC", 'guest', 'sybase', {PrintError =&#62; 0});

die "Unable for connect to server $DBI::errstr"
    unless $dbh;

my $rc;
my $sth;

$sth = $dbh-&#62;prepare("select \@\@servername");
if($sth-&#62;execute) {
    while(@dat = $sth-&#62;fetchrow) {
		print "@dat\n";
    }
}</PRE
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>
You'll note this is the same program as for <SPAN
CLASS="SYSTEMITEM"
>DBD::Sybase</SPAN
> with the exception of the <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>connect</CODE
> statement, welcome to the magic of DBI!
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