MY Eyes have been opened

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006, Laura Brody wrote:
>On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:49:21 -0500, Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb.net>  
>wrote:
>
>>Quoting Christopher Yerry (Thu, 9 Feb 2006 07:17:22 -0800 (PST)):
>>[...]
>>>filePro odbc - needs to be marketed as ODBC READER not
>>>ODBC;
>>
>>Not this again...
>>
>>filePro ODBC is, and always has been, a read and write ODBC client!
>>
>>What it's not, is an ODBC server.
>
>	I think that the confusion stems from not having a clear
>picture of what ODBC client and ODBC server mean....
>
>	With the client version, filePro requests a ODBC server
>(such as MySQL which is constantly running, waiting for a request)
>to read and write the MySQL records. A filePro ODBC server
>would have to run constantly and allow MySQL to read and
>write filePro's records.

The ODBC implementations I've seen (e.g. unixodbc) translate ODBC
requests into the appropriate SQL for the target database.

I don't claim to be and ODBC expert.  We don't use the Microsoft
virus, Windows for anything so the only thing I've ever used ODBC
for was with StarOffice and OpenOffice.org software to connect to
mysql and postgresql databases.  Given the Java heritage of these
office suites, I find that JDBC works far more reliably than ODBC
so I haven't looked at ODBC in several years.

Bill
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