# Rails and mssql

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-mssql/187702>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 28, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-mssql/187702 "2010-04-28T02:22:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![rhossi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b487fb/32.png) [@rhossi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rhossi)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-mssql/187702/1 "2010-04-28T02:22:08Z")

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My company is developing an application for a customer. The customer  
have an [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) web site and SQL Server 2008 database.

The client wants to keep SQL Server 2008 database and he is  
complaining that ActiveRecord does not communicate natively with SQL  
Server 2008.

They are asking us why ActiveRecord uses freeTDS in conjunction with  
unixODBC. Actually I googled it a little bit and in fact, I wasn’t  
able to find any library using only freeTDS to connect to SQL Server  
neither why there are only libs using freeTDS + unixOBC.

Does anyone have any idea?

Thanks in advance.