Harold, I did a similar exercise accessing MySQL from UniVerse. There are a few tricks, see :
http://u2blog.org/2007/10/08/universe-odbc-to-mysql/ Cheers, David Murray * Learn and do * Excel and share http://u2blog.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oaks, Harold Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 7:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [U2] Reading data from an SQL Server Database from Universe I am simply trying to read data from a SQL Server database into Universe. It's all supposed to be explained in the document "BASIC SQL Client Interface Guide", but am missing one key point, it seems... One defines the ODBC data source in the uvodbc.config file. According to the documentation the only information one puts into this parameter file are data source name and dbms type. For example: <mysqldb> DBMSTYPE = ODBC are two lines in this file. This says the data source name is 'mysqldb' and it's an ODBC type of database. OKfine. That's it! For sources which are Universe databases, one also enters a service type and host. That makes sense. Well - the SQL Server database I am interested in reading is on another server. WHERE do I specify the name of the server and the database name? Is it even possible in Universe to connect to a SQL Server database on another server? Thanks for any help on this. Harold D. Oaks Sr. Analyst/Programmer Office of the Budget and Information Systems Clark County, Washington ph: (360) 397-6121 x4132 fax: (360) 397-2342 ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
