<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Yup, that is what it was.</span></div><div><span>Rick :-{</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Richard Hane <yoresoft@sbcglobal.net> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> file Pro Mailing List
<filepro-list@lists.celestial.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 25, 2012 1:24 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Fw: Need assistance with fpODBC<br> </font> </div> <br>
On 10/25/2012 1:08 PM, Richard Hane wrote:<br>[...]<br>> My confusion was that looking at the sample ODBC files I assumed there<br>> was someplace outside of the file you were updating to set the connection<br>> data, table, fields, etc. I'm sure when I took the class they probably<br>> told us this but it was 6-8 years ago and I am old and forget things.<br>[...]<br><br>I believe the confusion you are having is between "high-level" and "low-level" ODBC access.<br><br>The samples show "low-level", where you explicitly do everything -- open the connection, run queries, scroll through record sets, and so on.<br><br>The "high-level" access is where you use define files to define a non-filePro file connected to an ODBC data source. Once defined (with some limitations), you then access that file as you would any other filePro file.<br><br>-- Kenneth Brody<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>