[Lazarus] Accessing MS SQLServer database from Lazarus/FPC?

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:34:25 +0100, Bo Berglund
<bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 09:42:01 +0100, Bo Berglund
><bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Is there an alterate connection mechanism that can be used towards
>>MSSQLServer which works also on Linux so the applications can be made
>>cross-platform? The database itself will of course remain on a Windows
>>server.
>>
>
>Sorry, I found this by searching:
>http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Database_Tutorial#Lazarus_and_MSSQL
>
>I will test that as soon as I get my lazarus to work properly with
>breakpoints (see next post).
>

Problem....

In the aforementioned WIKI page it is mentioned that one could use
ODBC towards MSSQL by:
"just use the SQLdb component that is included"

In order to check how to do this I went to the SQLDb WIKI page at
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/SQLdb_Package

Here is stated the following:
"The SQLdb package contains FPC units to access a number of SQL
databases. It is "packaged" as sqldblaz.lpk in Lazarus, and the
components can be found on the "SQLdb" tab. "

But in my new Lazarus built from the SVN 0_9_30_fixes branch there
simply is no such tab....

Is the WIKI page in error or am I doing something stupid?
Or rather (since right now I have not done anything at all): am I NOT
doing something that is obvious to all Lazarians?


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden