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Asked: 2026-05-10T17:03:50+00:00

We have a Windows machine running SQL Server 2005, and we need to be

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We have a Windows machine running SQL Server 2005, and we need to be able to run some database queries on it from a Linux box. What are some of the recommended ways of doing this? Ideally, we would want a command-line utility similar to sqlcmd on Windows.

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  1. FreeTDS + unixODBC or iODBC

    Install first FreeTDS, then configure one of the two ODBC engines to use FreeTDS as its ODBC driver. Then use the commandline interface of the ODBC engine.

    unixODBC has isql, iODBC has iodbctest

    You can also use your favorite programming language (I’ve successfully used Perl, C, Python and Ruby to connect to MSSQL)

    I’m personally using FreeTDS + iODBC:

    $more /etc/freetds/freetds.conf [10.0.1.251]     host = 10.0.1.251     port = 1433     tds version = 8.0  $ more /etc/odbc.ini [ACCT] Driver = /usr/local/freetds/lib/libtdsodbc.so Description = ODBC to SQLServer via FreeTDS Trace = No Servername = 10.0.1.251 Database = accounts_ver8
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