Did you try the groups search that I mentioned earlier?
There are a couple of posts on the groups about ways of using external
databases.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:34 PM, ScottG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks much, Mega. I use the inbuilt SQLite DB extensively. The hope
> was to contact a database outside of Android.
>
> But alas!
>
> Cheers, Scott
>
> On Apr 1, 2:38 pm, "Megha Joshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The SDK does not support this, there is no JDBC driver code distributed
> with
> > Android and there is no MySQL database server running in the system.
> > Android SDK ships with a inbuilt SQLite DB, which will be easier to use.
> > Else, you may want search for keyword "jdbc" on the groups, you will
> find a
> > couple of threads with discussions on the different alternatives for
> using
> > MySQL, Oracle, etc in your Android apps.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Megha
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:42 AM, ScottG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Anybody know how to load an ODBC driver into Android? For example, a
> > > MySQL driver? The usual drill doesn't seem to work. Class.forName
> > > blows out.
> >
> > > import com.mysql.jdbc.*;
> >
> > > class odbcConnection {
> > > public static Connection getConnection() throws Exception {
> > > Driver d = (Driver)Class.forName
> > > ("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance ();
> >
> > > DriverManager.registerDriver(d);
> >
> > > String URL = "jdbc:mysql:xxxx";
> >
> > > d = DriverManager.getDriver(URL);
> >
> > > Connection c = DriverManager.getConnection(URL, "yyyy",
> > > "xxxx");
> > > return c;
> > > }
> > > }- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
> >
>
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