Accessing DBs

[qwende]

I've very new to the concept of offloading websites/databases to another third party like discountasp.net. I have a small businesss that is starting to move forward briskly and I have a concern that our current infrastructure might not work so well in the future.

My question is what type of external access do we get to the databases offered by DiscountASP.NET? I have a hybrid Windows/Linux solution where some RADIUS servers running Linux need to communicate with the SQL Server database using a UNIXODBC driver - if we used DiscountASP.NET (which is totally windows based) for our Windows side, would our Linux boxes still be able to communicate with the SQL server databases?

Thanks.

[raymondp]

Are you looking for a database managing system you can install on your Linux box so manage MS SQL databases?

Unfortunately we only have tested and support direct connection to our sql database via database managing system with either enterprise manager for MS SQL 2000 or SQL Studio Manager for SQL 2005. Which is a windows base application.

[qwende]

No.

My exact question is whether our Linux boxes can access your SQL databases? We have two parts to our service, one is a management portal/front-end which clients log into; this part is written in ASP.Net and needs to be hosted elsewhere for reasons of redundancy. Unfortunately, we had to reuse some open-source code which exists on Linux for the *other* part of our solution. These Linux machines also need to access the same databases as the management site; these Linux boxes JUST need to connect to the databases and get information from them.

Make sense?

So....Windows front-end manages the information (the user logs in and sets up their account), Linux servers read from the database and *do*. We want to host the Windows portion under you.

[bruce]

Technically, you should be able to connect to our SQL server with almost any SQL client (ODBC, OleDB, etc.). I have tested connecting through ODBC remotely and it worked fine.


Bruce

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