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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft? by jm4 on Friday September 17, 2010 @12:08PM (#1701599)
Another case: MS SQL Server. It's a real bear to connect to it from unix since (last I checked) there are no official drivers. You have to use some unix ODBC open source stuff and it's just not suitable for production work.

FYI, you probably want to use the FreeTDS driver on Unix/Linux. It's not an ODBC driver and it is production quality.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft? by JunkDNA on Friday September 17, 2010 @05:16PM (#1702869)
I need to check again, but the last time I tried FreeTDS I got scared because of some serious encoding issues that were causing silent data loss. I have been following the bug report and it looks like this issue may have been finally patched recently, but it sort of scared me off from using FreeTDS.
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Re:Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft? by nutmeg on Friday September 17, 2010 @02:13PM (#1702167)
If you're using Java, the MS JDBC driver works just fine.
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