Re: [Sheflug] sybase, anyone?

[David Holden <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxx>]

If your going to do it in a language that your new to, I would do it in 
a higher level language, e.g. perl, it has a interface to sybase I think.

  dave.



stephen.tozer-loft@sth.nhs.uk wrote:
> hello sheflug
> 
> only found out about you lot last week having bought 'linux magazine' for a
> long train journey.
> 
> i'm a physicist at weston park hospital, and, though a relative newbie to
> linux, have taken on a big project.
> 
> this is just on the offchance that someone out there has the relevant skills
> and wouldn't mind exchanging a few emails to get me going.
> 
> i've got redhat 7.1 going on a nice dell poweredge server.
> i'm writing in C (which I'm new to) trying to get data from a flat ASCII
> file into a big sybase database, by calling special procedures (from a 3rd
> party manufacturer) using the sybase Open DB library.  
> 
> Is this anyone's bread and butter in sheffield?
> 
> thanks anyway, i know its a long shot...
> 
> steve
> 
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