[Mono-list] Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server database support in Mono ADO.NET

[Richard Torkar]

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On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 15:59, Daniel Morgan wrote:
> Hey,
>=20
> Currently, ADO.NET in Mono does not support Sybase nor Microsoft SQL Serv=
er.
> Unless, you want to use System.Data.Odbc with unixODBC with FreeTDS on
> Linux, System.Data.OleDb with libgda with FreeTDS on Linux, or with the
> native ODBC support and MDAC on Windows.  However, this adds a lot of
> dependencies, configurations, and another layer for data to have to trave=
l
> degrading performance.
>=20
> I would like to create a provider for Microsoft SQL Server in
> System.Data.SqlClient and for Sybase in Mono.Data.SybaseClient.  It will =
use
> the native FreeTDS libraries to provide this capability.  In order to use
> FreeTDS, we will need to create C# bindings to FreeTDS.

I have two students planning to port jTDS to C#.
Why don't you take that approach instead?

I talked with Rodrigo about this yesterday.

/Richard

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