Thanks for the feedback ... the ODBC feature seems to have been 'out 
of sight out of mind' ever since it was released.

> I use postgress, a free open 
> source database.

Why Postgress over MySQL ... any reason? (in the past Tomasz 
recommended MySQL).


--- In [email protected], "dloyer123" <dloyer...@...> wrote:
>
> I just had a good experience using the odbc database driver with 
> amibroker.
> 
> I built a tick database, about 75GB worth.  From that, I can 
calculate 
> volume at price, vwap and other data.  I use postgress, a free open 
> source database.
> 
> I thought that I would have to write my own trade match and 
backtest 
> code in sql, but then I found the odbc sql interface to pull the 
data 
> into amibroker.
> 
> I was plesantly surprised how fast the odbc/amibroker interface 
was.  
> Working with tick data is never fast, but each sql query from ami 
was 
> only a handful of ms.  
> 
> -Doug
>


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