Colin Foss wrote: > I have been trying to test ODBC with MonetDB with > little success. JDBC and MapiClient are working. > > MS*Excel, R, and other utilities all fail while trying > to initialize a connection via ODBC to MonetDB. > > Does anyone have a valid ODBC configuration to Monet?
I am assuming you're trying this on Windows. I just tried MonetDB4-SQL-2.16.2.msi and MonetDB5-SQL-2.16.2.msi on a clean 32 bit Windows XP Professional, and I had no problems. Perhaps you can define your environment a bit more completely? A few things to check/keep in mind: The uninstall isn't robust. If the MonetDB ODBC driver is still somehow active during uninstall, some files remain in C:\windows\system32 which may then not be replaced on a subsequent install. Check whether the files libMapi.dll libMonetODBC.dll libMonetODBCs.dll libmutils.dll libstream.dll (in my installation, that's all files matching the pattern lib*.dll in C:\windows\system32) are identical to the files in your installation folder (typically C:\Program Files\CWI\MonetDB*\lib) are identical, and if not, copy the ones from the installation folder over the ones in C:\windows\system32. Windows programs tend to not follow standards. I have encountered many programs (among them Excel) that produce SQL queries that MonetDB refuses. Typically the error is General Error, i.e. useless. The problem is usually column names that are the same as SQL keywords and that are not surrounded by double quotes. You can produce debug output by setting an environment variable in the environment of the program using the ODBC driver (e.g. Excel). The variable name is ODBCDEBUG and the value should be the full path name of a file. This file will contain the debug output. Basically all calls to the driver will be logged there. -- Sjoerd Mullender
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