ODBC drivers generally deal with databases that are "Self describing", which
.pdb databases generally are not ( I recall some discussion among a couple
of ex-Newton programmers that were working on this) The best you could hope
to develop is either an ODBC driver that is specific to a single .pdb (like
you might already know the layout of the datebook.pdb) (read: Hard Coded),
or a super generic ODBC/.pdb reader that returns each record in a .pdb as a
blob, and leave it up the user of the ODBC driver to then decipher each
"blob" into the appropriate records/fields. The CDK already does something
similar to the this anyway.
Bryan Nystrom
Natara Software, Inc. <http://www.natara.com/>
ICQ:2526059 Phone:(630) 579-0958
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Subject: Re: ODBC driver for .pdb files
Hi David,
> Does anyone know of an ODBC driver for accessing palm databases (.pdb)
> on Windows?
That's a very intriguing idea. Do you know if there is any good ODBC sample
code out there? I might do some hacking and see if I could throw a driver
together.
Also, isn't Microsoft moving away from ODBC? Do you know what technology
they are moving towards?
Ryan Robertson
Palm Development Support
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