# yum -y install freetds unixODBC
Please refer to FreeTDS user guide to download necessary database driver for the corresponding platform.
For some additional information please refer to: installing unixODBC.
ODBC configuration is done by editing the odbcinst.ini and odbc.ini files. These configuration files can be found in /etc folder. The file odbcinst.ini may be missing and in this case it is necessary to create it manually.
Please consider the following examples:
odbcinst.ini
$ vi /etc/odbcinst.ini [FreeTDS] Driver = /usr/lib64/libtdsodbc.so.0
odbc.ini
$ vi /etc/odbc.ini [sql1] Driver = FreeTDS Server = <SQL server 1 IP> PORT = 1433 TDS_Version = 8.0