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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Advocacy</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="userguide.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="FreeTDS User Guide" /><link rel="up" href="contrib.html" title="Chapter 10. Helping" /><link rel="prev" href="Ambition.html" title="Ambitious ideas" /><link rel="next" href="programming.html" title="Chapter 11. Programming" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Advocacy</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Ambition.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 10. Helping</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="programming.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="Advocacy"></a>Advocacy</h2></div></div></div><p>Out of ten people you know, it's a fair bet 10 never heard of <span class="productname">FreeTDS</span> and nine don't understand the problem it solves. Lots of places have begun to use Microsoft <span class="productname">SQL Server</span>s in all sorts of ways, and if you adhere to the Microsoft line, there's only one way to connect to them: from a Microsoft OS.</p><p>What can <span class="productname">FreeTDS</span> do that can't be done any other way? Glad you asked. <span class="productname">FreeTDS</span> can</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>Connect to every version of either vendor's server, using the same binaries.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Provide a <code class="systemitem">CT-Library</code> for Microsoft <span class="productname">SQL Server</span>. This feature alone allows <span class="productname">DBD::Sybase</span> and <span class="command"><strong>sqsh</strong></span>, among others, to connect to Microsoft's product.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Provide a modern <code class="systemitem">DB-Library</code> for Microsoft <span class="productname">SQL Server</span>: Win32/64, and TDS 7+. </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Provide a bcp-capable interface and command-line utility on unix-like operating systems for Microsoft <span class="productname">SQL Server</span>.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Run on many more operating systems than either vendor's libraries do.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Get fixed, instead of telling you to get stuffed.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Amuse and inform. Also frustrate and infuriate, but we don't put that under <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">Advocacy</span>”</span>.</p></li></ul></div><p>If more people knew, fewer would be stuck.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Ambition.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="contrib.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="programming.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Ambitious ideas </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 11. Programming</td></tr></table></div></body></html>