Connect to SQL Server database from Cocoa application

[Jose Jayan]

Connect to SQL Server database from Cocoa application

I am a Mac newbie.

Could anyone explain me the steps to access Microsoft SQL Server 2005 from Cocoa on Mac OS X 10.5.

The database driver should be free if possible.
If FreeTDS is the only option please advice me on how to make it work.

Thanks in advance
Jose

[garethlewis2]

Basic question. Have you logged into the MSDN site/Microsoft site to see if a driver is available for SQL Server for other platforms other than Windows?

There is a Java driver, but that doesn't help you.

[foidulus]

Slightly off-topic, but I really hope that in Snow Leopard Apple FINALLY gives us a standard way to access databases akin to JDBC. One of the biggest things stopping more mac devs from using Cocoa over technologies such as Java and perl/python/etc is that they have really poor DB access tools, for the most part you have to get the C drivers then provide wrappers around them.

This is not only a pain, it is very much db dependent....come on Apple...