> Is there a known technical reason why I can open literally any ODBC > driven data source in MS Word (2007 and higher), but *not* Firebird? > > Do I have to make any settings which escaped me so far, or will it > just not work or is the problem widely unknown so far? I'd like to > prepare some views in Firebird and make them available for some > assistants (creating mail merges). > > There is no problem in MS Excel (via MSQuery), but using the same > *.dqy throws "unable to connect to datasource: library 'C:\program > files\Firebi' failed to load", with an additional information > "SQL-Status 08004, return code: SQL_ERROR". > > Creating a new connection throws "Unable to retrieve table metadata" > (original in German: "Es konnten keine Tabellenlisten von der > Datenquelle bezogen werden").
What Firebird user are you using for connecting? Is it SYSDBA or the database owner? -- With regards, Thomas Steinmaurer http://www.upscene.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Firebird-odbc-devel mailing list Firebird-odbc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-odbc-devel
