Thanks, But this is not being done on a Win32 box. Does anybody know how I go about getting an ODBC driver for Sun Solaris ?
Bart Lateur wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:22:38 -0700, Erick Nelson wrote: > > >I've just spent the last 15 minutes looking at CPAN for a module to > >query a MS Access database. > >Which modules do I need to download? > > You need DBD::ODBC. > > >Can someone throw me a hint? :) > > Well: first create a DSN for the database using the ODBC control panel > (comes with Windows). You can simply use the name that you used for it > there, to connect to the db in the connect string. Just look at these > FAQ entries: > > I need to define a DSN for ODBC, how do I do it and which type should I > use? > <http://xmlproj.dyndns.org/faqomatic/cache/6.html> > > Example of DBD::ODBC and Access with Northwind database > <http://xmlproj.dyndns.org/faqomatic/cache/17.html> > > The archives for this list surely contain some more detailed recipes for > creating the DSN. > > -- > Bart.
