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Following you link, point 2: Quite sure it applies to microsoft product (SQLServer), though Microsoft SQL Server improved performance with ODBC, JDBC and ADO.NET database drivers suggest it may work... but it is silent with which version...

Can you explain: Not sure what we should understand by that...
What about the server holding the SQLserver database?

And you will note that in point 5 of the instructions it says to enter "eval". You will need to buy a license at some point to continue using it.

What is more pertinant is that this is just the ODBC drivers. They are just an add-in to Progress 4GL database engine (which is a very old product - now updated and rebranded as "Progress OpenEdge").
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If the O/P is both a Progress 4GL and MSSQL expert then it might be possible to get this ODBC to work. Our attempt some years ago was a failure and we changed to Progress Webspeed (pay software).

I'm still unclear whether this is a training exercise or a live issue. In similar training threads we see people using MySQL on both Linux and Microsoft platforms. I cannot comment on that product but others can.

Hi,

For sql server 2005 from linux, you can use FreeTDS.org

Hope this helps

I developed FreeTDS-based s/w under Linux recently working with SQL Server 2000 and 2005, although this app has not been deployed in production yet. There is a good support forum on their web site.

Like Migurus said, you can use unixODBC in combination with FreeTDS on linux to connect to MS SQL server. I have set up several VM's and it works fairly well.