On 5/2/06, Victor St Clair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've seen this question asked from time to time, but I can't get into
the archives to find out what the answer has been.
What archives are you having trouble with? I usually use Nabble:
http://www.nabble.com/U2---Users-f801.html
I find myself the person assigned to a new development project with the
responsibility of learning to use the Basic Client Interface to access
data in an SQL2005 DB. I have the BCI manual from IBM and am starting
my journey through it. But I recall seeing comments in the past to the
effect of "the examples supplied are not that useful, you can get
better examples at .....".
I did okay with the manual and the example program, though IMO the
example overly complicates the process with all the error checking.
You'll find a few messages of mine in the archives when I was fighting
with BCI about one thing or another.
The main problem is that depending on your combination of OS and
target database, it can be difficult-to-impossible to find both a
driver and driver manager so that ODBC access to an external DB
actually works.
For example, connecting from UniData on HP-UX to Sybase never
worked... we ended up buying a single-user Windows license for UniData
so we could finish the project. (Which then required the addition of
NFA to talk to the original UniData instance on HP-UX!)
I see your second note saying you're on Windows, so you'll be fine
there. Give it a try and let us know if you have questions.
--
Wendy
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