Connecting to SQL Server from Windows using FDW

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#1ivo silvestre
ivomts@gmail.com

Hi,

I need to create a linked server between 2 Windows servers. In one I've
PostgreSQL with admin privileges and in the other MS SQL with only read
access.

I need to create a view (or a foreign table?) in PostgreSQL from a table in
MS SQL in another server. The table in the MS SQL is constantly growing and
I need on-the-fly access to the data.

After some web search I found GeoffMontee's Github, but I don't know how to
install it on Windows...

Is there anyone how already did something like this and could help me out..?

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

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#2Adrian Klaver
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In reply to: ivo silvestre (#1)
Re: Connecting to SQL Server from Windows using FDW

On 01/22/2016 10:05 AM, ivo silvestre wrote:

Hi,

I need to create a linked server between 2 Windows servers. In one I've
PostgreSQL with admin privileges and in the other MS SQL with only read
access.

I need to create a view (or a foreign table?) in PostgreSQL from a table
in MS SQL in another server. The table in the MS SQL is constantly
growing and I need on-the-fly access to the data.

After some web search I found GeoffMontee's Github, but I don't know how
to install it on Windows...

Is there anyone how already did something like this and could help me out..?

Seems like it is an open issue:

https://github.com/GeoffMontee/tds_fdw/issues/53

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

--
Ivo Silvestre
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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

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#3John Turner
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In reply to: ivo silvestre (#1)
Re: Connecting to SQL Server from Windows using FDW

On Jan 22, 2016, at 1:05 PM, ivo silvestre <ivomts@gmail.com> wrote:

I need to create a linked server between 2 Windows servers. In one I've PostgreSQL with admin privileges and in the other MS SQL with only read access.

I need to create a view (or a foreign table?) in PostgreSQL from a table in MS SQL in another server ...
... I found GeoffMontee's Github, but I don't know how to install it on Windows...

Perhaps this link may help:
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3663/sql-server-and-postgresql-foreign-data-wrapper-configuration--part-3/

The only caveat I see offhand is the use of the 'sa' account, but I can't vouch for that being a required mapping.

Cheers,
John

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#4ivo silvestre
ivomts@gmail.com
In reply to: John Turner (#3)
Re: Connecting to SQL Server from Windows using FDW

Hi John,

Thanks, but I already saw that link. The problem is to installing the
tds_fwd extension on postgres. And I don't know how to (never tried)
compile it...

What comes with postgres by default is the postgres fdw
<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/postgres-fdw.html&gt;, that
allow to link 2 different postgres servers, but in this case that doesn't
help me.

On 23 January 2016 at 04:40, John J. Turner <fenwayriffs@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jan 22, 2016, at 1:05 PM, ivo silvestre <ivomts@gmail.com> wrote:

I need to create a linked server between 2 Windows servers. In one I've

PostgreSQL with admin privileges and in the other MS SQL with only read
access.

I need to create a view (or a foreign table?) in PostgreSQL from a table

in MS SQL in another server ...

... I found GeoffMontee's Github, but I don't know how to install it on

Windows...

Perhaps this link may help:

https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3663/sql-server-and-postgresql-foreign-data-wrapper-configuration--part-3/

The only caveat I see offhand is the use of the 'sa' account, but I can't
vouch for that being a required mapping.

Cheers,
John

--
Ivo Silvestre
______________________
*técnico sig | gis technician*

<https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivomts&gt;
______________________

#5John Turner
fenwayriffs@gmail.com
In reply to: ivo silvestre (#4)
Re: Connecting to SQL Server from Windows using FDW

On 23 January 2016 at 04:40, John J. Turner <fenwayriffs@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 22, 2016, at 1:05 PM, ivo silvestre <ivomts@gmail.com> wrote:

I need to create a linked server between 2 Windows servers. In one I've PostgreSQL with admin privileges and in the other MS SQL with only read access.

I need to create a view (or a foreign table?) in PostgreSQL from a table in MS SQL in another server ...
... I found GeoffMontee's Github, but I don't know how to install it on Windows...

Perhaps this link may help:
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3663/sql-server-and-postgresql-foreign-data-wrapper-configuration--part-3/

The only caveat I see offhand is the use of the 'sa' account, but I can't vouch for that being a required mapping.

On Jan 23, 2016, at 4:08 AM, ivo silvestre <ivomts@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi John,

Thanks, but I already saw that link. The problem is to installing the tds_fwd extension on postgres. And I don't know how to (never tried) compile it...

What comes with postgres by default is the postgres fdw, that allow to link 2 different postgres servers, but in this case that doesn't help me.

Sorry Ivo, my bad - I managed to gloss over the salient point for your issue in this link - you're on Windows, his Postgres was on Linux!

Compiling an extension on Windows, last time I tried many moons ago was unfortunately not successful, which involved compiling the whole pg source tree via MinGW.

Hazarding a thought - although it's discontinued, it might be worth checking out Windows Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

But I suspect anything you managed to compile with that would still be incompatible with your pg instance...

Beyond that, perhaps the gurus here have some sage advice...

- John