Filemaker through ODBC

[Mark Schonewille]

Sounds good, John. Thanks for sharing your experience. This is good  
news after reading the somewhat disturbing information in the archives.

Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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Op 2-okt-2007, om 0:56 heeft John Tregea het volgende geschreven:

> Hi Mark,
>
> It was pretty straightforward, I defined the ODBC data source under  
> Win XP and connected to it from the database query builder (Rev  
> Enterprise 2.8.1) with no problem. I attached the query to a field  
> table object and was able to read and update records without error.
>
> Usually I use the reOpenDatabase, revExecuteSQL etc, but for the  
> sake of the experiment just went for the simple approach. Mind you  
> I haven't tried this on a network yet, it was a local ODBC data  
> source.
>
> I haven't explored how flexible the ODBC interface is but will have  
> to get to that soon. The product I am building abstracts the  
> presentation layer away from any particular brand of SQL (or ODBC)  
> and will handle the mapping between multiple host database types.
>
> Regards
>
> John