-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/07 14:45, Mirko Scurk wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 04/20/07 16:05, Mirko Scurk wrote: [snip] >>> >>> What am I doing wrong? >>> Is it even possible to connect from php to mdb? >>> Do I have to buy some drivers? >>> Is it possible to connect from netbeans to this odbc dns via jdbc-odbc >>> without some special additional drivers? >> Does mdbtools supply a daemon? If not, you might have to write your >> own. >> > > How come isql then works without daemon?
Because isql directly attaches to the mdb file, but odbc needs a daemon listening on a port. >> More fundamentally, though, is: why are you leaving this data in mdb >> format? mdbtools is designed for extracting data so you can convert >> it to robust RDBMSs like PostgreSQL or SQLite3. >> > > I had to write "extension" to application already running on jet database. > Another words, I just need read-only access to mdb to get some data > necessary to new application. > Old application is windows-only application accessing to mdb file stored > on linux samba server. I don't see any way to replicate mdb data > constantly to postgres. That's what I suspected... > Searching Internet there are some (not to many) working examples of such > setup but I can't get to those people. On unixodbc and sqlrelay sites > there are explanations of working setups so I figure it's not impossible. Looks like you might need to write your own. Or bite the bullet and accept the pain that is Vendor Lock-in. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGKoT5S9HxQb37XmcRAprDAJ4zKvU1MFVkUlKax3YMbpMbUIQwJQCgz2I3 43FbHXmy0/p0G4Ns+uFq/8Q= =mWgd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
