install tds on ubuntu to connect to mssql from pgsql https://github.com/tds-fdw/tds_fdw/blob/master/InstallUbuntu.md copy and build tds_fdw: ``` export TDS_FDW_VERSION="2.0.3" sudo apt-get install wget wget https://github.com/tds-fdw/tds_fdw/archive/v${TDS_FDW_VERSION}.tar.gz tar -xvzf v${TDS_FDW_VERSION}.tar.gz cd tds_fdw-${TDS_FDW_VERSION}/ sudo chown ptrowbridge:ptrowbridge -R tds_fdw-2.0.3/ make USE_PGXS=1 sudo make USE_PGXS=1 install ``` create extension in postgres: `CREATE EXTENSION tds_fdw;` create foreign server: ``` CREATE SERVER usmidsql01 FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER tds_fdw OPTIONS (servername 'usmidsql01', port '1433', database 'fanalysis', tds_version '7.1'); ``` create user mapping: ``` CREATE USER MAPPING FOR ptrowbridge SERVER usmidsql01 OPTIONS (username 'Pricing', password ''); ``` to extract the schema into a single table that describes the schema do: ``` IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA dbo FROM SERVER usmidsql01 INTO pricequote_dbo; ``` and this will create a table call pricequote_dbo."UNCONTRAINED_COLUMNS" create foreign table: ``` CREATE FOREIGN TABLE pricequote.pl ( quote integer ,billto text ,shipto text ,cdate timestamp ,value numeric(18,9) ,title text ,descr text ,comment text ,url text ,srce text ) SERVER usmidsql01 OPTIONS (table_name 'fanalysis.rlarp.pl') ```