Re: MsAccess vs Oracle

[Jamie Harris <JHarris@FCC.CC.MD.US>]

In your ODBC administrator, you create a new data source using the
Microsoft Access driver.  In the configuration for the data source is a
place to browse to the actual location of the database (on your hard
drive or on a shared network drive).

Then, point your SQR to that datasource and you're all set. :)  That's
intent of ODBC: to make it so you can write platform independent
database reports for easy migration.

(note my previous email though about making sure the SQR doesn't
reference anything DB specific: ODBC is nice, but it's not perfect yet
:)

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Jamie Harris
Junior Systems Programmer/Analyst
Information Technology Division
Frederick Community College
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>>> allen.cunningham@SONOMA.EDU 6/17/2002 12:31:02 PM >>>
John - How does one set up an sqr to have it go against Access?? Do you
run
from sqrw directly, or go thru a  batch file, or do you create P/S run
control panels. What do you set up to have it use Access as its
database??

Tx,

Allen Cunningham

-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion of SQR, Brio Software's database reporting language
[mailto:SQR-USERS@list.iex.net]On Behalf Of John Willson
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:13 PM
To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
Subject: Re: MsAccess vs Oracle


Hi Joan, there really isn't a comparison of MSAccess versus Oracle.
Some
would argue MSSQL server versus Oracle.  I use MSAccess to develop my
SQR's
and then point to Oracle.  At this point I have only gone to Ora 8 and
not
tried 9 as yet.  If you are going to MSAccess to get at the data with
VB
say, be sure to use ADO and not DAO so that you can just change your
ODBC
drivers to point from Access to Oracle.  (Access lacks a  lot of DBA
functions that can completely hang you in production systems let alone
the
NT/2000 versus Unix stuff; however, for development, testing, and
training
it has many advantages.)

John Willson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hatcher, Joan A" <joan.hatcher@BAESYSTEMS.COM>
To: <SQR-USERS@list.iex.net>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:17 PM
Subject: MsAccess vs Oracle


> I want to transition a Unix-based Oracle 7 database to either a
higher
> version of Oracle or to a windows based  MSAccess database.  Our
current
> report writer is SQR, and I don't want to-re-write all the reports.
>
>   1. If I went with MSAccess, am I correct in assuming that I could
use
ODBC
> to run my old SQRs ?
>   2. If I went with Oracle, what is the highest version that can be
used
> with SQR ?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
>   Joan Hatcher
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________
> Joan A. Hatcher                       301-862-7177  (phone)
> Programmer Analyst III          301-862-7107  (fax)
>
> joan.hatcher@baesystems.com
>
>
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