Re: [WinMac] Re: ODBC and Macs
Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:32:39 -0400
At 09:00 AM 9/15/98 -0500, Belinda J. Wagner Ph.D. wrote:
>>There's also a product
>>from August Software (714-450-2450) called ODBC Router. Here's a
>>description from MacWindows.com:
>>
>>"Sits on a Windows NT Server and enables Mac OS and Windows 95
>>applications to access any ODBC database residing on the NT machine or on
>>other computers on the network. Mac ODBC applications, including MS
>>Office 98 Mac Edition,
>
>This would be great if Office 98 included Access, which is not even on
>the planning table from what I've heard. Excel is a relatively primitive
>tool. The only thing it could accomplish with an ODBC driver is to
>extract data from a single table. You'd still have to perform your
>queries on the server side with SQL, Oracle, SAS, Access, or whatever.
>You could program macros to massage the table within Excel, but that tool
>is unwieldy -- having none of the dynamicism of Access. Also, report
>generation is crude in Excel as compared with Access.
I just read a report from a Filemaker Developers Conference
<http://www.macintouch.com/fmpdev1998.html> which included a salient tidbit.
"Hot-button topics included discussion of new ODBC/SQL links which will
show up in version 4.1 (scheduled to ship within a couple of weeks)"
I'm not very up on these higher-end database issues but it sounds like this
will be a great relief to many Mac db developers.
--
Curtis Wilcox cwcx@cc.rochester.edu
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