# Rails and MSSQL

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-mssql/187704>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 28, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-mssql/187704 "2010-04-28T03:05:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 28, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-mssql/187704/1 "2010-04-28T03:05:27Z")

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My company is developing an application for a client. The client  
has an [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) web site and SQL Server 2008 database and wants to keep  
it

He is  
complaining that ActiveRecord does not communicate natively with SQL  
Server 2008 and are asking us why ActiveRecord uses freeTDS in  
conjunction with  
unixODBC.

I googled it a little bit and to be hones, 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.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.