FreeTDS

FreeTDS is a <a href="/facts/Free_software/IaoVtJXn">free software</a> programming library, a re-implementation of the <a href="/facts/Tabular_Data_Stream/fU9ke2nI">Tabular Data Stream</a> protocol. It can be used in place of Sybase's db-lib or ct-lib libraries. It also includes an <a href="/facts/ODBC/2dV2Fm5j">ODBC</a> library. It allows many open source applications such as <a href="/facts/Perl/fx31kjlT">Perl</a> and <a href="/facts/PHP/vU6YRJX0">PHP</a> to connect to <a href="/facts/Adaptive_Server_Enterprise/eocfB6I6">Sybase ASE</a> or <a href="/facts/Microsoft_SQL_Server/eCdt2JBL">Microsoft SQL Server</a>.
FreeTDS is a <a href="/facts/Source_code/o9J6Jv23">source code</a> library, not a program in and of itself. Users generally <a href="/facts/Compiler/WNfCDFJe">compile</a> the library from source and <a href="/facts/Linker_(computing)/pn1hztYe">link</a> another program to the library to allow the other program to use the FreeTDS <a href="/facts/API/GMlN4vUr">API</a>. However, recent releases of FreeTDS do include some client programs, such as fisql (a replacement for the isql utility programs distributed by Sybase and Microsoft). FreeTDS is licensed under terms of the <a href="/facts/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License/AXwkz9x3">GNU Lesser General Public License</a>.
For scripting languages, FreeTDS is used in conjunction with a module for that language such as DBD::Sybase in <a href="/facts/Perl/fx31kjlT">Perl</a>, Python-Sybase for <a href="/facts/Python_(programming_language)/YbuGqofa">Python</a>, or Ruby DBI for <a href="/facts/Ruby_(programming_language)/BeYSaPSR">Ruby</a>
jTDS is a <a href="/facts/Java_(programming_language)/9ScgFyAL">Java</a> implementation of FreeTDS, available on <a href="/facts/SourceForge/lxYAgUAX">SourceForge</a>. jBCP extends jTDS to include Sybase <a href="/facts/Bulk_Copy_Program/QqzlzXxu">Bulk Copy Program</a> (BCP) extensions.

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