(RADIATOR) RE: SQL Server (DPR#11789)

[Mike McCauley]

Hello Alex,

> Hey guys,
>    I emailed you earlier today about using Radiator with SQL Server 2000. 
> I emailed ActiveState and got some information I thought pertained to this
> problem and I was curious if it was possible to use the solution mentioned
> below rather than ODBC.  Thanks.

Both DBIx-MSSQLReporter and  DBIx::AnyDBD rely on DBI, so there is no new 
transport mechanism provided by them.

Dont know anything about MSSQL::Dblib MSSQL::Sqllib.

Cheers.

>
> Alex Fritz
> Kerdaino Enterprises
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Troy Topnik [mailto:Support at Bugs.ActiveState.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 5:07 PM
> To: alex at kerdaino.com
> Subject: Re: SQL Server (DPR#11789)
>
>
> Alex,
>
> There is no DBD module for MS Sql.  You may want to try using MSSQL::Dblib
> and/or MSSQL::Sqllib.
>
> http://www.algonet.se/~sommar/mssql/
>
> You can install DBIx-MSSQLReporter or DBIx::AnyDBD using PPM which also may
> provide the database connectivity you need.
>
> I'm not sure if any of the above will work with Radiator.  You may have to
> use
> DBD-ODBC in the end.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Troy Topnik, TroyT at ActiveState.com
> Customer Relationship Representative, ActiveState
> http://www.ActiveState.com
>
> > Hi,
> >   I am using a software package called Radiator in order to perform
> > Radius authentication and accounting.  It runs off of ActivePerl and I
> > previously was using this system on an Oracle database.  Now I am setting
> > this system up for somebody using SQL Server 2000 and I am a little lost
> > in finding
>
> the
>
> > correct PPM package to allow Perl to directly connect to MS-SQL.  The
>
> Radius
>
> > package specified to search for DBD packages of which I haven't seen any
> > I can use to connect to SQL Server other than ODBC.  I really don't want
> > to use ODBC because of it inefficiency.  Please let me know what
> > solutions
>
> are
>
> > available.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Alex Fritz
> > Kerdaino Enterprises
> >
> > PS- This is urgent, we have to get this done quickly, so if you could
> > give this message a high priority, I would appreciate it.  Whatever you
> > can do will be greatly appreciated though.  Thanks again! :)
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