[Sigia-l] [Forwarded] Unix compatible databases

Simon Wistow simon at thegestalt.org
Wed Jun 25 11:27:01 EDT 2003


On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:50:22AM -0400, Richard Hill said:
> Can we have our users view information in an Access database when we're 
> using Cold Fusion and a Unix server?

They could try something called an ODBC proxy.

The ODBC proxy runs on the Unix box, the Coldfusion process connects to 
that and the proxy connects to the ODBC connection on the Access 
machine.

Presuming of course they they can't just connect to the Access machine 
directly via Coldfusion.

Simon



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