slightly off-topic: mac odbc

[Alex Rice]

On Jan 7, 2004, at 11:18 AM, Steve Ralston wrote:

> I need to have an app talk to a MySQL database using a User DSN. I 
> have no problem setting up the ODBC on the pc, but the ODBC 
> Administrator on my OSX mac doesn't make a lot of sense to me. On the 
> pc I provide the ODBC manager with the database name, server
> name,  username and password, and I can test the connection and it 
> tells me the connection is successful. I don't see similar 
> capabilities on the mac, so I'm guessing I'm missing something. Thanks 
> very much to anyone who can help me understand this better.

Steve, I haven't looked at it in 10.3, but in MacOS 10.2 the ODBC 
administrator was worthless IMHO. It is a stripped down version of 
iODCB Driver Manager which comes with the commercial iODBC drivers. 
Download some drivers and use that Driver Manager instead.

I've found ODBC on Unix and Mac to be a real pain because most of the 
drivers are very expensive, and it's not very widely used. Unlike on 
Windows where everything is ODBC it seems.

Here are some starters:
<http://www.iodbc.org/>
<http://www.openlinksw.com/support/macosx-faq.htm>

I'm not sure about licensing. The openlink drivers appear to be GPLed 
now!

Alex Rice <alex at mindlube.com> | Mindlube Software | 
<http://mindlube.com>

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