category: Database requires: bash cygwin libgmp10 libgnutls30 libgssapi_krb5_2 libhogweed4 libiconv2 libiodbc2 libnettle6 libreadline7 libsybdb5 sdesc: "MS-SQL and Sybase database utilities" ldesc: "FreeTDS is a set of libraries for Unix and Linux that allows your programs to natively talk to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases. Technically speaking, FreeTDS is an open source implementation of the TDS (Tabular Data Stream) protocol used by these databases for their own clients. It supports many different flavors of the protocol and three APIs to access it. Additionally FreeTDS works with other software such as Perl and PHP, providing access from those languages as well."