On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 12:26 PM, Mark Powell wrote:
I am not understanding the advantages of having to do this and am
confounded by the interface of the Data Sources control panel that the docs
point to.
AFAIK you can't address ODBC databases by a path. You have to use The DSN.
I don't use Access, or Runrev with ODBC, but I have used ODBC on windows 2000 in the past, with a mysql database. I guess DSN stands for "Data Source Name". The idea is you use the control panel to define settings about your database connection (driver, hostname, username, password, database specific settings, etc). That NAME is then used by ODBC clients to connect to the data source. It's a good concept and it works.
(BTW, I am a RunRev newbie, but with years of HyperCard development in the early 90s--this product is my dream come true).
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Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. http://ARCplanning.com
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