Re: Q: Open-source to access MS SQL server 2000/2005 DBs from Ada ?

[Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>]

After a long battle with technology, Gautier <gautier@fakeaddress.nil>, an earthling, wrote:
> What do you recommend as an open-source, reliable package (or set of
> packages) to access MS SQL server 2000/2005 DBs (hopefully these
> versions are not of importance) ?

When none of Microsoft's software is "open source," it doesn't make
much sense to expect to use "OSS" anything with it.  That's not
consistent with the "Microsoft Way."

> The Ada code would steer DBs through simple SQL queries.  It also
> would call stored procedures - are these MS-specific ?

Certainly they are.  A "standard" scheme for stored procedures, called
PL/M, didn't emerge until, I believe, SQL:2003.

> I would use GNAT from the Ada side but I would prefer a
> compiler-independent solution, if it exists.
>
> The aim is to re-engineer progressively a crappy VB.Net program.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for pointers.

Seems unlikely...
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