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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!nsw.news.telstra.net!elausrv2.att.net.au!surya From: Richard Laxton <richard@real.net.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Databases (again) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 23:49:10 +1000 Organization: RealNet Access Lines: 20 Message-ID: <323FFDD6.29C2@real.net.au> Reply-To: richard@real.net.au NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.25.56.127 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27485 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4902 Hi, I know that this question has been asked to death but I ask again ;-) I am thinking about using a database of some sort on one of our FreeBSD or BSD/OS servers as a kind of transparent extension to our Access admin database. We have used Access via OpenLink ODBC drivers to get data from Informix Online 5 servers (SCO yuk!) in the past so figure that ODBC is the go in this case. We have tried the same thing with Postgres95 and PostODBC but Access tried to use bits of ODBC that either were not supported in Postgres95 or in PostODBC. So the question... has anyone successfully and stably managed to get ODBC connectivity from Access or another serious ODBC user (Lotus Approach etc) to any database running on a FreeBSD or BSD/OS box? I have also looked at mSQL and am currently waiting for my beta copy of Raima Velocis database (sounds very promising... a commercial database for BSD/OS at last... I know that there is JustLogic but anyone who has used it knows how much of a joke *that* is. ) Thanks in advance for any responses.