Mark,

If you've got a functional ODBC driver on the MAC it should work just like it was on Windows. At the wire level, it's just talking on sockets.

As far as using it in a revLet, it appears all of us that have this need are, shall we say, screwed. You will have to have some sort of .cgi process on a server somewhere that will be able to talk ODBC to the database server and use sockets to talk to the revLet(s). It can be a simple as passing the parameters you were going to pass to the revDB call along with the name of the routine (as text) and then excute this on the cgi end to talk to the "real" database. It's quick and dirty but should be easy to get up and running. You can make it more robust later if there's a hurry to get something done.

Better yet, get after runRev to give us someway to communicate with databases from revLets and the problem will be solved.

len

Mark Stuart wrote:
Hi all,
A colleague of mine wants to build a revWeb internet application that
accesses data from a MSSQL Server on a Windows server. He wants to
deploy this application as a cross platform application.
How would he go about that, as the application has the
revOpenDatabase("odbc"...) in the scripts?
And if using on ODBC connection on a Mac, the MSSQL ODBC driver has to
be installed and a DSN defined as well, right?
I've been building Windows deployed applications, and don't know what to
tell him.

Are there any ODBC MSSQL connection tutorials for cross platform
applications?
And what other learning resources are there on such things?

Regards,
Mark Stuart
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