Re: VFP 6.0 & ODBC



Ohh...thank you so much Cindy.
The latest driver did work indeed.

Demetrios, Greece

"Cindy Winegarden" <cindy_winegarden@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Demetrios,

The latest FoxPro and Visual FoxPro ODBC driver, version 6.0.8629.1, is
downloadable from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/downloads/updates.

Try that and see if you still get the same errors.

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Cindy Winegarden MCSD, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
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"Demetrios Panayotakopoulos" wrote:

> As a part of a test, I try to access VFP Tables through ODBC.
>
> Here is what I do:
> o I create a System DSN using "Microsoft Visual ForPro Driver"
> 2.00.8167.00,
> VFPODBC.DLL
> o Set the Data Source Name as "mailw"
> o Set the Database Type as Visual FoxPro database (.DBC)
> o and the path as: "c:\MyApps\Mailw2000\mailw2000.dbc"
>
> Trying:
> SQLConnect("mailw")
> I get -1 (failure)
>
> If instead, I create the same as above, using "Free table directory"
> instead
> of .DBC
> and set the pasth to: "c:\MyApps\Mailw2000"
>
> SQLConnect("mailw") returns a conection handler.
> But truing to select data from existing table in the directory, I get -1
> again.
> h=SQLConnect("mailw")
> ? SQLExec(h, 'Select * from Names')


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