Re: Need a GNU SQL CLI tool for Win32 with ODBC support.

On Mar 1, 2006, at 6:00 PM, Roy Souther wrote:

> I love Linux, any tool you need it has it. Just try to find the
> most basic of tools for Windows, what a joke.
>
> I need an Open Source SQL command line tool for Windows that will
> let me script queries to a database over an ODBC connection. It
> must use ODBC because it may or may not be PostgreSQL. Some times
> it will but the rest of the time I have no idea what is on the
> other end.
>
> Most crap I am finding is shareware and everything is GUI. Some
> stuff is Open Source but requires Java, not good but still not CLI.
>
> Has anyone seen such a tool?

PHP is pretty easy to setup on Windows and appears to have good ODBC
support:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.uodbc.php

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL