> On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 06:27:05PM +0200, R. Klemme wrote:
> > But if I understand you correctly there is no legal or technical reson
> that
> > would prevent integration of freetds.
>
> Correct! And, it's not neccessary to integrate a FreeTDS DatabaseDriver
> into DBI, it could live as a separate project, like for example the
> Oracle 9i DBD.
As a shared lib? Well, yes. I rather meant implementation wise, there have
to be *some* methods implemented in order to satisfy DBI's interfaces.
> > > You can already access MSSQL from all platforms via DBD ODBC + DBD
> > > Proxy. But that might not give you the performance you need.
> >
> > So I assume, that you need a proxy running on some wintel box that does
> the
> > ODBC connection and a client on any platform that connects via this
> proxy to
> > the db.
>
> Exactly! You run a proxy on the Windows machine (of course this works
> with any other platform/database on which ruby runs/for which a DBD
> exists), and can connect to it via TCP/IP using DRb (Distributed Ruby).
> Of course there are security issues and performance issues to respect.
> Security can be fixed by tunneling (or using a SSL socket), performance
> might be the bigger problem. But keep in mind that the Proxy DBD is just
> ~100 lines of pure Ruby code, and the proxyserver is ~150 lines of pure
> Ruby. And DRb is ~800 lines (pure Ruby again :-).
So, there's not much room for improvement. :-)))
Regards
robert
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