[asterisk-users] Re: Is asterisk able to integrate with MS SQL

[Bruce Reeves]

I have an IVR for employees to enter certain information, like employee
number and such and then I pass that to a simple agi/php script that build
the query string and uses freetds. It took me a while to get it working and
reproduce it on several systems, but I am rather new to Linux in general.

On 11/15/06, Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>
> In article <9bd3e43a0611141600i4cd6285cyda966079f88c3bb5 at mail.gmail.com>,
> Sharon Lim <limleechin2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > -=-=-=-=-=-
> > -=-=-=-=-=-
> >
> > Thanks, will do more research on that part. By the way, Im trying to do
> IVR
> > where caller enter the pin the retrieve some information out of the MS
> SQL.
> > I am wondering, what is the constraints or how to go about it. As per
> said
> > MS SQL is about CDR. Now like i want to match and retrieve data out of
> the
> > DB through IVR. Any guidance?
>
> I don't think there is any direct access to MS SQL via FreeTDS from the
> dialplan, but there are ODBC functions you could use. See this page:
>
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+app_dbodbc
>
> Alternatively, implement your IVR using AGI or the ExternalIVR application
> and then you can do what you like with the database.
>
> See http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+AGI
> and http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+ExternalIVR
>
> Cheers
> Tony
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Bruce
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