Connecting to SQL Server on Raspberry Pi
Recently, Microsoft provides ODBC client S/W for Linux that can connect to its MSSQL. This Linux client S/W can be used in almost all distributions such as CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian, and SUSE. However, all of these client modules for MS SQL are for x86 (amd64). Therefore, it cannot be used in Raspberry Pi (Debian distribution) and NVidia Jetson series (Ubuntu distribution) using ARM CPU. Therefore, you should use FreeTDS modules previously provided by the open source community. The following is an introduction to freetds.org/. F reeTDS is a set of libraries for Unix and Linux that allows your programs to natively talk to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases. T echnically speaking, FreeTDS is an open source implementation of the TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol used by these databases for their own clients. It supports many different flavors of the protocol and three APIs to access it. Additionally FreeTDS works with other software such as Perl and PHP, provi...