RE: [WinMac] linking tables in FileMaker 4.1 (Mac) and MSAccess97

Will Porter(wporter[at]polytrope.com)
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 19:38:15 -0500

Terry Dash wrote:

> One of my colleagues would like to use the Link Tables feature of
> Microsoft Access97 to connect directly to a table inside a
> FileMaker database.

And John Nurick <jnurick@lrconsulting.co.uk> replied:

> This didn't appear to be possible when I tried to find out last
> year. I half remember having read somthing since then about
> FileMaker and ODBC, so things may have changed.

Alas, no. FileMaker 4.1's ODBC support is one-way: It can *query* an ODBC
compliant database (which includes Access 97) but it cannot respond to SQL
queries directed at itself. The hope is that two-way ODBC support will appear in
version 5, which is rumored to be slated for release this year (but who really
knows!).

Check out the latter parts of this page:

http://www.filemaker.com/products/filemakerpro/odbc-overview.html

Will

William Porter, Ph.D.
Polytrope Solutions
http://www.polytrope.com/
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