[Sussex] Wine and SQL Server 2000

[Stephen Williams]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 17:03 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:32:24 +0100
> Thomas Adam <thomas at edulinux.homeunix.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:21:54PM +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
> > wrote:
> > > I've tried running the SQL 200 Server tools under wine, but it just
> > > won't install. It says that it can't copy a file to my harddrive
> > > because it doesn't exist, however when I check it out, it is there.
> > 
> > I'm not surprised it doesn't work.  Wine is *very*, that's *very*
> > developmental at the moment.  It's fine for running low-key apps such
> > as notepad, but SQL Server?  No chance.
> 
> I'm not trying to run the entire server, just the admin tools.  The
> server is remote (london) and needs to be accessed accordingly.
> 

I'm not sure how much of the functionality you desire can be found in
unixODBC and DataManager, but you could have a look.

http://www.unixodbc.org/

Steve Williams.



> Cheers,
> 
> Matt
> 
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