Re: FoxPro6 and MySQL, odbc

2001-05-29 Thread Charles_Kirby
Excellent! This looks like it should work. Another useful reference is http://lists.mysql.com/cgi-ez/ezmlm-cgi?5:mss:2861:200102:nofjdmbdkfaebemidbgl From: Christopher R. Jones Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:00:33 -0500 I have it working. Here is what I did: I. MyODBC Create a System D

Re: FoxPro6 and MySQL, odbc

2001-05-29 Thread Charles_Kirby
Ah, yes, I remember seeing some of this COM or ADO stuff in the Que book, plus the SQL passthrough stuff. I remember putting the book to one side for some reason, and that reason follows: It looked to me as if you certainly *could* manage to *read* data from another machine, but (tell me if I'

Re: FoxPro6 and MySQL, odbc

2001-05-29 Thread Charles_Kirby
Any specifics? Informative/interesting articles on your Nerd Herd web site, Cal ! Better fix I have the Que book, "Special Edition, Using Visual FoxPro 6", but all it ever discusses is how *other* applications can access _FoxPro's_ database. I don't want to do that. I'm considering this re

Re: mySQL databases over two drives

2001-05-29 Thread Charles_Kirby
This isn't awfully useful to you, but it's dead easy to do this on a Unix system. All you do is copy the data over wherever you like (to a big, fat, drive), and then link the new directory from the /usr/local/mysql/data/ directory ("ln -s"). OTOH, I guess you can't link a file/directory in Win

FoxPro6 and MySQL, odbc

2001-05-29 Thread Charles_Kirby
Hi, I see there are ways to have MySQL obtain data from a FoxPro database--using ODBC--which is very nice, I'm sure. However, is it possible to run a FoxPro program that gets data from a MySQL database?? Thanks! - Before po