ODBC Proxy for remotely accessing legacy resources?

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Published on 2010-01-13T21:20:45Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 9:07 UTC
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Our project uses AcuCorp's AcuODBC driver to access a legacy Vision database. The problem is that we only have a 32-bit driver and the installer simply won't run on our 64-bit servers. I need a way to use SSIS to pull data from that system. As far as I can tell, there are 3 options:

  1. Set up a whole new SQL Server instance with SSIS and the AcuODBC drivers on a 32-bit VM (costly)
  2. Try to hack the 32-bit driver onto our 64-bit server manually (failure prone and unsupported)
  3. Set up a 32-bit VM with some sort of "proxy" service that our 64-bit SSIS can use to pull the data.

The first option is the least desirable. If you have any suggestions for options 2 or 3, or anything else I haven't thought of, I'd love to hear them.

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