Name

DBD::Sybase—For Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server

General Information

Driver version

DBD::Sybase version 0.14

Feature summary

Transactions                           Yes
Locking                                Yes, implicit and explicit
Table joins                            Yes, inner and outer
LONG/LOB datatypes                     Yes, up to 2 GB
Statement handle attributes available  After execute(  )
Placeholders                           Yes, "?" style (native), see text below
Stored procedures                      Yes
Bind output values                     No, all values returned via fetch methods
Table name letter case                 Sensitive, stored as defined, configurable
Field name letter case                 Sensitive, stored as defined, configurable
Quoting of otherwise invalid names     Yes, via double quotes
Case-insensitive "LIKE" operator       No
Server table ROW ID pseudocolumn       No
Positioned update/delete               No
Concurrent use of multiple handles     Statement handles restricted, see below

Author and contact details

The driver author is Michael Peppler. He can be contacted via the dbi-users mailing list, or at .

Supported database versions and options

The DBD::Sybase module supports Sybase 10.x and 11.x, and offers limited support for accessing Sybase 4.x and Microsoft MS-SQL servers, assuming availability of Sybase OpenClient, or the FreeTDS libraries.

The standard release of MS-SQL 7 can not be accessed using the Sybase libraries, but can be used using the FreeTDS libraries. There is a patch for MS-SQL 7 to allow Sybase clients to connect:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q239/8/83.asp

The FreeTDS libraries (http://www.freetds.org) is an Open ...

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