odbc

Check if a table exists, and if not, create it

I'm using a Odbc connection to a mysql server, and was wondering how I would go about checking if a table exists within my database, and if not, create it. ...

Asterisk with new functions

hi all , please need help for an asterisk with windows I created a write func odbc list records files in sql table: [R] dsn=connector write=INSERT INTO ast_records (filename,caller,callee,dtime) VALUES ('${ARG1}','${ARG2}','${ARG3}','${ARG4}') prefix=M and set it in dialplan : exten => _0X.,n,Set( M_R(${MIXMONITOR_FILENAME}\,${CU...

How to convert "0" and "1" to false and true

I have a method which is connecting to a database via Odbc. The stored procedure which I'm calling has a return value which from the database side is a 'Char'. Right now I'm grabbing that return value as a string and using it in a simple if statement. I really don't like the idea of comparing a string like this when only two values can ...

Can't connect twice to linked table using ACE/JET driver

I'm trying to connect to an MS Access database linked table in VBScript. It works fine connecting the first time on one connection but if I close that connection and open a new one in the same script it gives me an error. test.vbs(13, 1) Microsoft Office Access Database Engine: ODBC--connection to '{Oracle in OraClient10g_home1}DB_NAME...

Connect rails application to SQL Server 2005 from Windows

Hi guys. I (sadly) have to deploy a rails application on Windows XP which has to connect to Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Surfing in the web there are a lot of hits for connect from Linux to SQL Server, but cannot find out how to do it from Windows. Basically I followed these steps: Install dbi gem Install activerecord-sql-server-adapt...

MySQL performance - 100Mb ethernet vs 1Gb ethernet

Hi All I've just started a new job and noticed that the analysts computers are connected to the network at 100Mbps. The ODBC queries we run against the MySQL server can easily return 500MB+ and it seems at times when the servers are under high load the DBAs kill low priority jobs as they are taking too long to run. My question is th...

What is a good free ODBC viewer?

At my job I have to work with three different databases. One is a SQL Server 2008, for which I use SQL Server Management Studio, and another is MySQL, for which I use the MySQL tools. The third however is a Cache database that I can only access through a ODBC connection. Currently I use the SLIK software ODBC View tool to access it, b...

can I see all SQL statements sent over an ODBC connection?

I'm working with a third-party application that uses ODBC to connect to, and alter, a database. During certain failure modes, the end-results are not what I expect. To understand it better, I'd like some way of inspecting all the statements sent to the database. Is there a way to do this with ODBC? I know with JDBC I could use http://ww...

Large character field sizes in SAS

Hi All I am trying to import a large blob field from a MySQL table via SAS ODBC passthrough. The field is larger than the maximum length allowed in SAS. According to SAS 9.2 documentation character type fields can have a maximum length of 32k. Has anyone had experience storing large character fields in SAS? Any suggestions other than...

What is the proper odbc command for calling Oracle stored procedure with parameters from .Net?

In the case of MSFT SQL Server 08, it is: odbcCommand = new OdbcCommand("{call " + SP_NAME + " (?,?,?,?,?,?,?) }", odbcConn); When I try to do the same thing for Oracle, I get: OdbcException: ERROR [HYC00] [Oracle][ODBC]Optional feature not implemented. Feel free to ask for clarification, and please help. I am using .Net 3.5, SQL S...

Using an ODBC application with a JDBC driver

My company uses Vertica. We have Python applications that connect to it with pyodbc. I do most of my development on a Mac (Snow Leopard) and unfortunately Vertica has not released ODBC drivers for Mac. They do have JDBC drivers though. I don't think developing in Jython is a good compromise. Is there any way to use JDBC drivers with...

How to change identifier quote character in SSIS for connection to ODBC DSN

I'm trying to create an SSIS 2008 Data Source View that reads from an Ingres database via the ODBC driver for Ingres. I've downloaded the Ingres 10 Community Edition to get the ODBC driver, installed it, set up the data access server and a DSN on the server running SSIS. If I connect to the SQL Server 2008 Database Engine on the server ...

Table of Oracle DB versions supported by newest ODBC driver

I want to know which ODBC driver version is recommended for Oracle 9 and 10. Is there official Oracle document that says that newest version of Oracle ODBC driver can or even should be used with older servers? ...

Oracle ODBC x64 - getting 0 when selecting a number(9) column

I'm having a really weird problem with a third party web service that uses an ODBC connection to Oracle 10.2.0.3.0. I've written a .NET client that generates the same SQL as the web service so I can find out what's going on. The web service is hosted by IIS 6 that's in x64 mode so we use Oracle x64 client. The oracle client version is 1...

Turning on multiple result sets in an ODBC connection to SQL Server

I have an application that originally needed to connect to Sybase (via ODBC), but I've needed to add the ability to connect to SQL Server as well. As ODBC should be able to handle both, I thought I was in a good position. Unfort, SQL Server will not let me, by default, nest ODBC commands and ODBCDataReaders - it complains the connection...

Simplest Way to Test ODBC on WIndows

With unixODBC you can use a simple command line utility called "isql" to test your connection and permissions of some queries. Without having to write extra code or install libs is there a simple way to open up X data source send some sql commands and be done with it? ...

Reading from a database located in the Program Files folder using ODBC

We have an application that stores its database files in a subfolder of the Program Files directory. These files are redirected to the VirtualStore in Vista and Windows 7. We represent data from the database using Microsoft DataReports (VB6). So far so good. But we now want to use Crystal Reports XI to represent data from the database. O...

ODBC Linked server in sql 2005 doesn’t work from remote box

I have a dev workstation with sql 2005 installed and in it I created a linked server to a odbc connection to a clarion database. I can run select statements against it inside sql Mgt studio. When I take a second workstation and connect to the sql on the first box using sql mgt studio, then try the exact same query I get OLE DB provid...

problem with codeigniter using odbc database driver

i’ve run into a curious problem with codeigniter's odbc driver. i’m connecting from a linux machine to an MSSQL 2008 machine using FreeTDS. while i get that the ‘num_rows’ function always returns -1, and that is fully a database/driver issue - for some reason when i try to create a ->result(), the whole application crashes (error 500, s...

Adding linked table to Access 2003 while keeping ODBC connection info in MDB

I have an Access 2003 database MDB where all of the tables exist as linked tables within SQL Server 2005. The MDB file contains all of the ODBC information that points to the correct SQL Server and log-on credentials (trusted connection). What I would like to do is add a new linked table to the MDB file however I am not sure how to go ...