ODBC for AmigaOS 4.1

Hi,

i'm working on an ODBC manager for Amiga OS 4.1.
I need some betatesters that have knowledge of ODBC and maybe also C.
you can find all informations here:

http://www.amigasoft.net/pages/odbc/odbc.asp

i'm working also on a SQL manager

http://www.amigasoft.net/pages/odbc/images/sqlmanager.png

that is still in progress..
i need to know if someone is interested to this product or my time is bad spent as usual..

@afxgroup

Sorry for offtopic, but what theme you use to have such look of intutition ? (i want it too :) )

@afxgroup

I think this we really need database solutions. Having the ability to connect to databases on other platform is the first step. (i)ODBC can be a very good thing especially if performances are there and it is implemented in Amiga way.

@afx

bad spent as usual?
most of your ports are very useful!

@afxgroup
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Michael Christoph (MeickySoft) is currently working on a MySQL manager as part of the AMP package. Is MySQL the same as SQL? http://www.amigabounty.net/index.php? ... projectid=43&historyid=34

@kas1e

It's one of the new 4.1.1 theme

@afxgroup

Well done, I'd say this is probably one of the more important developments for AOS4, will this be ablt to work with the UnixOBDC driver built into PHP? (ie Edgar's port of PHP)?

Mark

@afxgroup

As you already explained on AW.net: Phython is the coming script language for AmigaOS. So there might be no problem with SQL here - I'm thinking about a bounty for

- Python/ARexx wrapper - for all those existing ARexx ports in applications.

- Some GUI toolkit for Python (al? RxMUI, Tritonrexx, ...).

@ZeroG

mine is not a proper database manager that would depends from a single database but a simply "Query Executor"
So if i have a DSN can execute a query ad see its results. Nothing else.
Just as an addon to the ODBC system that is the main part

@afxgroup

I say YES!

GO FOR IT!

We need all we can get!

@afxgroup

Which database engines will this be able to work with?

@gregthecanuck

at moment:

SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, a News Server driver and an M$ Access driver (even if it seems doesn't work so well..).
I'm searching all around the world for other drivers like a csv driver f.e.

@cha05e90

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use the arexx module .....

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blender ?

(whilst that last was a joke, you can actually do it....)

@afxgroup

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That's quite a good idea. Some of the bigger solutions are overkill for everyday usage.

How complex is writing a driver?

@afxgroup

Yes, please! This is no waste of time but very much wanted as Amiga has a big gap here for years.
Is it likely that you also may put out a 68k or AROS version later? Both are very portable and can play on so many x86 devices such that you can directly compare results to the original.

@afxgroup

That's very good. The Amiga needs many good softwares.

@Helgis

i'm working on the SQL Manager now.

http://www.amigasoft.net/pages/odbc/images/sqlmanager.png

At moment it is possible to connect to any DSN present in the system and choose on left listbrowser which elements see of the current database (Tables, views, System tables or All)

next is to execute the queries from the texteditor present on the right and show the results in the bottom listbrowsers..

so anyone can play with queries

But remember that the spirit of ODBC is to provide connection with all software that needs connection to database so maybe, we (developers) can start to write software that use it instead of using only files to store data in the 2010..

@afxgroup

Wow very nice!

@afxgroup

I completely agree with you...
maybe creating a spreadsheet.gadget would help a lot the situation...

A part from that I like your tool for writing and executing queries!
Thanks Andrea!