Re: Desperately in need of a Database app....
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, D'jinnie wrote:
> :If you are one of those extravagent people who has more than one
> :computer, you could always run something like PostgreSQL or mySQL and
> :use their ODBC drivers to use them as a backend, but do all your
> :database design on Access... I'm thinking of doing this myself at the
> :moment with my homicide database, but I'm still trying to work out how
> :to tell mySQL that my other computer is allowed to connect to it...
>
> I have attempted to set up ODBC with Postgres, and I think I got the ODBC
> part working (I'm doing this for my work, trying to come up with an
> alternative to M$ SQL :) but I've no clue how to make Access talk to
> Postgres...if anyone got this working, I would appreciate any and all
> hints and suggestions :)
IIRC, M$ Access will output plain boring SQL, which I guess Postgres could
read...
Matthew
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