Hi,

Does anyone have experience using ODBC on UNIX? UNIXODBC or any other
variant?
I am and will search, of course - both the Web and newsgroups - but was
interested to hear from people with current or near-current experience
with any such ODBC software for UNIX/Linux. This is in order to check
out possibility of adding UNIX ODBC support to my xtopdf open source
project - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf. Its a toolkit to help
convert other file formats to UNIX. Currently supports these input
modes  - plain text and .DBF (XBase files) - (stable), and CSV, TDV,
and Windows ODBC (alpha).

The kind of info I'm interested in - about UNIX ODBC - is :

Is is more or less the same as Windows ODBC? in the API, architecture
(driver manager + database-specific drivers), etc?

How stable is it?

How many drivers are available for different databases and how stable
are those drivers?
How many Open Source drivers are there for the common / major databases
on UNIX/Linux?
(like MySQL, PostGreSQL, etc.)

Thanks in advance, and I'll summarize. Will also post here if and when
the UNIX ODBC support is added to xtopdf.

Any other useful or relevant info.

Vasudev Ram
Independent software consultant
http://www.geocities.com/vasudevram
PDF conversion toolkit:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf

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vasudevram schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have experience using ODBC on UNIX? UNIXODBC or any other
> variant?

Dear vasudevram,

yes, we have experience using ODBC also with Linux/UNIX.

> I am and will search, of course - both the Web and newsgroups - but was
> interested to hear from people with current or near-current experience
> with any such ODBC software for UNIX/Linux. This is in order to check
> out possibility of adding UNIX ODBC support to my xtopdf open source
> project - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf. Its a toolkit to help
> convert other file formats to UNIX. Currently supports these input
> modes  - plain text and .DBF (XBase files) - (stable), and CSV, TDV,
> and Windows ODBC (alpha).
>
> The kind of info I'm interested in - about UNIX ODBC - is :
>
> Is is more or less the same as Windows ODBC? in the API, architecture
> (driver manager + database-specific drivers), etc?

Yes, also the functions are the same.

>
> How stable is it?

Good for production use. Some of our customers are using our ODBC driver
through unixODBC for accessing mainframe data.

>
> How many drivers are available for different databases and how stable
> are those drivers?

see http://www.unixodbc.org/ Section "Drivers"

> How many Open Source drivers are there for the common / major databases
> on UNIX/Linux?
> (like MySQL, PostGreSQL, etc.)

see http://www.unixodbc.org/ Section "Drivers"

>
> Thanks in advance, and I'll summarize. Will also post here if and when
> the UNIX ODBC support is added to xtopdf.

You're welcome,
Axel.

>
> Any other useful or relevant info.
>
> Vasudev Ram
> Independent software consultant
> http://www.geocities.com/vasudevram
> PDF conversion toolkit:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf
>

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Hi,

Thanks for the replies. I'll check out the Drivers section.

Vasudev

Axel Richter wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> vasudevram schrieb: 
>
> Dear vasudevram,
>
> yes, we have experience using ODBC also with Linux/UNIX.
> 
>
> Yes, also the functions are the same.
> 
>
> Good for production use. Some of our customers are using our ODBC driver
> through unixODBC for accessing mainframe data.
> 
>
> see http://www.unixodbc.org/ Section "Drivers"
> 
>
> see http://www.unixodbc.org/ Section "Drivers"
> 
>
> You're welcome,
> Axel.
> 

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