[Gambas-user] ODBC and XML

[José L. Redrejo Rodríguez]

El jue, 06-01-2005 a las 08:29 -0800, Rob
<sourceforge-raindog2 at ...94...> escribió:


> 
> On Thursday 06 January 2005 09:57, KOKSAL BASAR wrote:
> > 1) May I connetc MSSQL (or Jet .mdb files) with ODBC. This is
> > very important case for VB Developers. If Gambas do it,
> > Micro$oft will be very unhappy.
> 
> I think once the ODBC component (recently submitted) is up to 
> speed, you will be able to connect to MSSQL through the 
> "freetds" package (which also handles sybase.)  If it doesn't, 
> then someone will need to write a gb.db.freetds component (and 
> it may end up being me, but no promises.)
> 
> There is a perl module for reading .mdb files, but I don't know 
> if anyone wrote a Linux ODBC driver for them.  The file format 
> is weird enough that I would be very cautious about writing to 
> them with a driver not provided by Microsoft, but it should be 
> possible to write an Access to Sqlite converter so you could 
> include sqlite files with your Gambas projects.
> 
> Rob
> 


According to http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net, there is an unix odbc
driver for access "databases".