MSQL though a shell

Tue Oct 14 05:49:32 UTC 2008

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 17:10:06 -0400,
  Franck Y <franck110 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> I have to query a remote database that run under MSQL and get the result
> within a shell/perl script ?
> 
> Does anyone of you did that ? I would not like to purchase a ODBC driver
> since it is for a project at school

Take a look at freetds. I don't know if it will completely solve your
problem, but it might provide part of the answer.