[asterisk-users] Asterisk w/MS SQL Server 2005

[BJ Weschke]

On 9/4/07, Larry Costigan <larry.costigan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got an Asterisk switch that is going to run an IVR menu with a database
> interface that will be doing lookups based on the user entered data and then
> reading back strings with the appropriate data integrated into the text.  I
> have found quite a bit of data on using MySQL as a database with Asterisk,
> but I haven't found much about using MS SQL Server with Asterisk...
>
> We have a SQL Server 2005 database server that has all the data that is
> needed for the IVR interface, and it would be great if we could interface
> directly with it using Asterisk.  Does anyone have any suggestions on even
> attepting this?
>
> Another option might be to setup Asterisk to interface with MySQL and then
> work out the details of exchanging data between MySQL and SQL Server...
>
> Any and all help is greatly appreciated!!
>

 You'll want to take a look at func_odbc which should probably give
you a pretty good conduit to get the data you need to work through the
IVR flow.

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