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

[André K. <Kna...@be...>]

>> 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?

SYSDBA for the first test.