Oleg,
> I am wondering if anybody tried to link PostgreSQL tables/databases
> from
> SQL Server.
> As I understand SQL Server uses OLE DB for this kind of connections.
> I
> wonder if this is possible at all with postgres.
In theory, yes. In practice, no.
According to the documentation, SQL-Server supports any Win32 ODBC
driver ... which would include PostgresODBC. However, in practice,
only Microsoft-supplied drivers actually work; ODBC drivers for
Postgres and MySQL mysteriously do not function with SQL-Server (even
though they do work with MS Access).
I think this is incompetence on Microsoft's part rather than malice;
all of this works through DTS, a utility which is responsible for over
300 Knowledge Base issues.
Note: I have not tried any of this with SQL Server 2000, just 7.0 sp3.
-Josh
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