[Mapserver-users] DB connection

[Dylan Keon]

I was looking into SDE for Sybase recently.  Apparently ESRI 
discontinued SDE support for Sybase at version 8.  There are some good 
details in this post (but note it's from 2001...): 
http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=2&f=59&t=36544&mc=3

--Dylan


Lowell Filak wrote:

> Guess that settles that question :-(
> Lowell
> 
> The following message was sent by Christoph Spoerri <spoerri at duke.edu>
> on Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:55:13 -0400.
> 
> 
>>Currently ArcSDE does not support sybase as of 8.3. The same will be
> 
> true for 
> 
>>9.0 (I believe). Sorry!
>>
>>Christoph
>>
>>On Wednesday 09 July 2003 12:42 pm, Lowell Filak wrote:
>>
>>>I believe it could be connected via SDE if you have an SDE license(s)
>>>for it.
>>>Lowell
>>>
>>>The following message was sent by Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net>
>>>on Wed,  9 Jul 2003 08:32:46 -0700.
>>>
>>>
>>>>Not that we are aware of. Does Sybase support spatial data and spatial
>>>>indexing?
>>>>
>>>>Quoting Katja Janson <katja.janson at rz.hu-berlin.de>:
>>>>
>>>>>Has anybody jet connected the MapServer to a Sybase DB?