Re: Connecting To MySql

2009-04-03 Thread Stephen Russell
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:47 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account This is what I love about using MySQL with VFP...I can develop locally no matter if I'm online/connected or not, and then when done in my dev environment, I just changed the connection string and that's it...that along with

RE: Connecting To MySql

2009-04-02 Thread Richard Kaye
General Account Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:13 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Connecting To MySql W.N. Pew wrote: Well, at long last I'm going to try using a remote back end - MySql. Problem is I can't seem to get the odbc driver (5.1) configured. When I enter the required

Re: Connecting To MySql

2009-04-02 Thread Bob Lee
Heidi sql is a really good sql tool, for free. http://www.heidisql.com/? No time trial.. very solid. Bob Lee - Original Message - From: Rick Schummer pro...@whitelightcomputing.com To: profoxt...@leafe.com Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 8:53 PM Subject: RE: Connecting To MySql

RE: Connecting To MySql

2009-04-02 Thread W.N. Pew
Software Solutions General Account Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:13 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Connecting To MySql W.N. Pew wrote: Well, at long last I'm going to try using a remote back end - MySql. Problem is I can't seem to get the odbc driver (5.1) configured. When I enter

RE: Connecting To MySql

2009-04-02 Thread Rick Schummer
...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Steve Ellenoff Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 06:02 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: Connecting To MySql Rick- What specifically did you need to get this to work, as I could never get it working from my GoDaddy site? You mention configuring the web server and throwing

Re: Connecting To MySql

2009-04-02 Thread Stephen Russell
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:17 AM, W.N. Pew b...@msn.com wrote: Hi folks! Thanks for the speedy responses last night. I tried SQLYog and the SQLSTRINGCONNECT method and got no results. Finally I decided to call YAHOO! Support and was informed they block all remote connections and would not

Re: Connecting To MySql

2009-04-02 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
W.N. Pew wrote: Hi folks! Thanks for the speedy responses last night. I tried SQLYog and the SQLSTRINGCONNECT method and got no results. Finally I decided to call YAHOO! Support and was informed they block all remote connections and would not 'unblock' any. Too bad, I liked it at YAHOO!.

Re: Connecting To MySql

2009-04-02 Thread Steve Ellenoff
Not to defend Yahoo or anyone else, but I would guess from their perspective, the point is: most developers are using php or some other web hosted language to access the mysql database (often on the very same host as the database itself). So from their perspective, remote support is just

Re: Connecting To MySql

2009-04-02 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Stephen Russell wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:17 AM, W.N. Pew b...@msn.com wrote: Hi folks! Thanks for the speedy responses last night. I tried SQLYog and the SQLSTRINGCONNECT method and got no results. Finally I decided to call YAHOO! Support and was informed they block all remote

Re: Connecting To MySql

2009-04-02 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Steve Ellenoff wrote: Not to defend Yahoo or anyone else, but I would guess from their perspective, the point is: most developers are using php or some other web hosted language to access the mysql database (often on the very same host as the database itself). So from their perspective,

Re: Connecting To MySql

2009-04-01 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
W.N. Pew wrote: Well, at long last I'm going to try using a remote back end - MySql. Problem is I can't seem to get the odbc driver (5.1) configured. When I enter the required information I get an error stating a connection could not be made to the database. Obviously I'm not entering the info

RE: Connecting To MySql

2009-04-01 Thread Rick Schummer
Bill, I had a similar problem with connecting to a server on GoDaddy, and after some frustrating moments with trying different versions of the ODBC drivers I found out that the Web server was not configured for remote access. Once the switch was thrown on the GoDaddy site I was able to connect