Re: ODBC questions

From: Sak Wathanasin <sw_at_nan.co.uk>
Date: 1997/03/18
Message-ID: <sw-ya02408000R1803970056460001@newshost.nan.co.uk>#1/1

In article <sweth-1503971753350001_at_news.clark.net>, sweth_at_bivwood.com (Sweth Chandramouli) wrote:

> 1. Is there a general ODBC faq somewhere, discussing the issues involved?

Pass. The intro in the ODBC API ref man is fairly reasonable.

> 2. Do the ODBC drivers need to be specific to the program, or just the
> platform? (e.g. would i need two different sets of drivers to connect
> from the win95 machine with both access and filemaker?)

You need an ODBC driver for each DBMS that you want to connect to. Don't know of any ODBC drivers for FileMaker though...

> 3. Are there mac drivers out there anywhere? I couldn't find any
> while searching. (Connecting with filemaker (or even foxpro) on a mac
> would be my ideal option, though our clients will probably demand some
> sort of win interface.)

Yes, I've even written one (for VMark's uniVerse). The place to start is to get the MacODBC SDK either from one of the developer CDs (I think MacODBC 2.1.2 is on the Sep 96 CD) or it's available from one of the Apple FTP sites.

PS comp.sys.mac.databases is the right place to ask these questions...

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Received on Tue Mar 18 1997 - 00:00:00 CST