Good morning all, I have been studying MaxDB for the past two weeks - what an exceptional program!
We have a substantial investment in several packages developed in Gupta's SQLWindows - SQLBase. Where the IDE is fine, the DBMS lacks certain features which is very nicely covered by MaxDB, and the natural progression would be to continue to use the developed clients, but to migrate the backend to MaxDB via the SQLDBC interface. Ok now, the question of getting the clients written in SQLWindows to talk to MaxDB - ODBC is ok but we prefer the SQLDBC interface for several reasons. SAP AG have supplied two libraries - sqldbc.dll and sqldbc_c.dll. There is a problem with the SQLWindows IDE that it can only attach external libraries of C format and structure - so the sqldbc_c.dll works fine. I have studied the SQLDBC documentation, and have managed to decipher the function layout and structure within sqldbc_c.dll. I can attach to the dll and have successfully called some peripheral functions. The supplied example in the documentation covers some calls in the c++ version of sqldbc, but I need some examples using the sqldbc_c structure. I suppose any example written in PERL will be very handy. Our experience is that the "reverse engineering" of working examples is by far the quickest and most cost effective way of assimilating the knowledge required to effectively use any new library. If anyone can assist, I will be most grateful. Regards, John Ulyate
