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## Advocacy

Out of ten people you know, it's a fair bet 10 never heard of FreeTDS and nine don't understand the problem it solves.

What can FreeTDS do that can't be done any other way? Glad you asked. FreeTDS can

- Connect to every version of either vendor's server, using the same binaries.

- Provide a `CT-Library` for Microsoft SQL Server. This feature alone allows DBD::Sybase and sqsh, among others, to connect to Microsoft's product.

- Provide a modern `DB-Library` for Microsoft SQL Server: Win32/64, and TDS 7+.

- Provide a bcp-capable interface and command-line utility on unix-like operating systems for Microsoft SQL Server.

- Run on many more operating systems than either vendor's libraries do.

- Get fixed, instead of telling you to get stuffed.

- Amuse and inform. Also frustrate and infuriate, but we don't put that under “Advocacy”.

If more people knew, fewer would be stuck.

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