Hi Todd, do you want to connect to an ODBC data source w/o creating a DSN in ODBC Manager/Administrator on Win/Mac?
If so, there was a discussion in October 2010 in this list with the topic "Does revDB support FileDSN or Connection Strings?" The following is an example which should work under windows w/o problems. get revOpenDatabase("ODBC","DRIVER=SQL Server;SERVER=" & tServer\ & ";DATABASE=" & tDBase & ";UID=" & tUser & ";PWD=" & tPw\ & ";Trusted_Connection=No",,,) On Mac i am using the ActualTech with this connection string: Driver={Actual SQL Server};Server=192.168.0.1\SQLExpress;Database=NorthWind;UID=sa;PWD=my_password;" You should not have any spaces around the semi-colons or the assignment operator (the "equals" signs). Btw.: There is a site http://www.connectionstrings.com/ with a connection string reference. Regards, Matthias Am 09.12.2011 um 22:39 schrieb Todd Geist: > Hello, > > I am experimenting with a generic an ODBC datasource. I can connect using > revOpenDatabase and DSN, but I would really like to ditch the DSN. Does any > one know if this is possible? I have tried to just enter the host and port, > but somehow you need to specify the driver. I did install the driver in > the same folder as the others. But that didn't help. > > Any one try this? > > Todd > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode