On Jan 19, 2007, at 8:32 AM, David Graham wrote:
I would like to automatically store data I am collecting with a
REALbasic
program into FM. Does anyone know if any version of FM supports
pushing of
data into a FM database via ODBC (or any other way). Apparently FM
6.0 does
not, and I have not been able to get a clear answer from Filemaker
whether
more recent versions would be any better. Their version of ODBC
support
seems to be it allows FM can read other databases, not that other
databases
can store data into FM files.
David Graham
Hello,
Yes you can push data into FileMaker using ODBC. I do it all the time.
Versions 6 and earlier were pretty slow and only supported a subset
of SQL commands.
Versions 7 and later are much better. They support all standard SQL
commands.
If you can do it, you are much better of going with the latest
version of FileMaker. In fact I wouldn't try doing any serious ODBC
stuff on FileMaker 6 or earlier. It isn't worth the trouble.
FileMaker 8.5 is really pretty good at it.
Todd
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Todd Geist
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