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*F*reeTDS is a set of libraries for Unix and Linux that allows your
programs to natively talk to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases.
*T*echnically speaking, FreeTDS is an open source implementation of the
TDS (Tabular DataStream) protocol used by these databases for their own
clients. It supports many different flavors of the protocol and supports
several APIs to access it. Additionally FreeTDS works with other
software such as Perl and PHP, providing access from those languages as
well. There is also a native (type 4) JDBC driver available for
platform-independent Java clients (including Java Server Pages
applications), with support for most of the JDBC 1 API and portions of
the JDBC 2 API.
*F*reeTDS has many possible uses. It has been used by Unix/Linux
webservers to present data stored in SQL Server to the web, for porting
SQL Server database code from NT to Unix, to import data into SQL Server
from a Unix source, and to provide database access on those platforms
such as realtime systems that have no native drivers.
*T*he FreeTDS C libraries are available under the terms of the Gnu LGPL
license, consult the COPYING.LIB file in the distribution for details.
Major portions of the source code for the JDBC driver are copyright CDS
Networks, Inc., or Craig Spannring, the original author of the driver,
with a license which permits "[r]edistribution and use in source and
binary forms, with or without modification" provided the conditions in
that license are met (see the license included with the driver's
distribution).
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