Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] Using Firebird ODBC in MS Word

[Thomas S. <ts...@ib...>]

> Is  there  a  known technical reason why I can open literally any ODBC
> driven data source in MS Word (2007 and higher), but *not* Firebird?
>
> Do   I  have  to make any settings which escaped me so far, or will it
> just  not  work  or  is the problem widely unknown so far? I'd like to
> prepare   some   views  in  Firebird  and make them available for some
> assistants (creating mail merges).
>
> There  is  no  problem  in  MS Excel (via MSQuery), but using the same
> *.dqy  throws  "unable  to  connect to datasource: library 'C:\program
> files\Firebi'   failed   to  load",  with  an  additional  information
> "SQL-Status 08004, return code: SQL_ERROR".
>
> Creating   a new connection throws "Unable to retrieve table metadata"
> (original   in  German:  "Es  konnten  keine  Tabellenlisten  von  der
> Datenquelle bezogen werden").

What Firebird user are you using for connecting? Is it SYSDBA or the 
database owner?


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With regards,
Thomas Steinmaurer
http://www.upscene.com/