RE: [WinMac] Re: ODBC and Macs
Landis Arnold(landisa[at]ibm.net)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:01:41 -0600
Someone Wrote...
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.
There are two potential spins here. First, you can run Fox Pro 2.5 (and
3.0) on both platforms, and 2 you can run File Maker Pro on both platforms.
Microsoft Access is simply something Microsoft threw into the pot, but I
haven't heard anywhere that it is the be all end all of Database or even
Desktop Data integration... (but what else haven't I heard)..
Anyway, the Filemaker ODBC/SQL links sound great. How they integrate w/
Office is another thing. FoxPro can integrate well with office but you
need to be on it to program FoxPro quickly and acceptably. Professionally
programmed FoxPro apps are very good and fast, but not for the faint at
heart.
Landis Arnold
Boulder
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