Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] connect to all gdb-files with odbc

[Helen B. <he...@fi...>]

At 07:17 PM 26/09/2007, you wrote:
>Hello Hellen,
>
> > There is no such thing as a Firebird database that
> > consists of many
> > separate gdb (or fdb or anything else) files.
>
>as a matter of fact I can only connect via ODBC to the
>"big" file - no matter if I define the "big" gdb-file
>or one of the small ones (!!, or simply *.gdb) in the
>ODBC options. I cannot see the "project"
>tables/files/whatever. The tables are always the same.
>So, if I want to link all the tables provided by the
>ODBC driver in one MS Access database I will not be
>able to query my projects. Except somebody can tell me
>what to do.
>
>I analyzed my "big" file and a found a table with the
>"header" information of my "projects/small files"
>including one field specifying the path and filename
>of the project file. That's the way the software I
>bought is set up, no doubt. This may not be state of
>the art but I cannot change it. I can only recommend
>to store all projects in a big table within the main
>database in future versions - which would slow down
>the whole application, I saw that before with the
>foxpro application I mentioned...)
>
> > An ODBC data source interfaces one Firebird
> > database with your
> > application.
>
>So, the programm I have is not "following the rules"
>:(
>
>But what can I do?

Ask for your money back?  ;-)

Seriously, though, this doesn't sound like=20
software that was designed for a relational=20
database.  It would be interesting to know what=20
the software is and what it is meant to do.

Helen



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