On Tuesday 18 June 2002 4:04 pm, Derek Fountain wrote:
Yes, 'pin' told me that. However, it seems unixOBDC is throughly broken under SUSE-8.0. That library and associated package isn't in any sensible place, and the GUI tools for configuring unixOBDC are completely missing. When you do get it to work of sorts, there's a bug somewhere which prevents you using it unless the DNS name happens to be the same as your MySQL database name.
Can't agree there, Derek. As I said in my earlier post, it works pretty well, apart from the database name issue, which may or may not be a SuSE glitch, but is not serious for single-user dbs anyway. You need to install an additional package for the GUI, but it is on the disks.
Shame. OpenOffice finally delivers the Access-style front end to MySQL which people have been asking for for years, but SuSE don't deliver the glue to make it happen.
I tend to think that unixODBC is still a bit clunky. It is true that the version of unixODBC supplied with SuSE 7.3 would not work with Peter Harvey's other project (Data Architect, sold by theKompany), but that was just because it was an older version. Even when I compiled it from source I didn't notice any speed, etc improvements, so I don't think this is down to SuSE. Just my 2 cents. Kevin