[Sigia-l] Unix compatible databases

[Gupta, Anu]

Hmm..

OK - I was assuming everything needed to be on one Unix box for some bizarre
reason ! 

This http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/ts/documents/tn17262.htm
technote suggests that you can connect to an ODBC source from Unix.

It also says that Coldfusion MX can communicate with databases that have a
JDBC 2.0 compliant driver. There are JDBC drivers for Access.

 
anu

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Fast [mailto:karl.fast at pobox.com] 
> Sent: 25 June 2003 16:12
> To: sigia
> 
> 
> > Can we have our users view information in an Access database when 
> > we're using Cold Fusion and a Unix server?
> 
> 
> I thought this was possible, but it might not be.
> 
> As far as I can tell:
> 
>   - CF works on both Windows and Unix (Linux, Solaris, HP-UX). 
> 
>   - On windows you can use ODBC or the native Access driver
> 
>   - On Unix you need to use the native driver (it doesn't look like
>     they support ODBC on Unix). They don't have a native driver for
>     Access.
> 
>   - This is kinda weird since there are ODBC drives for Unix (eg:
>     redhat includes ODBC drivers with their standard distribution).
>     You'd think CF would support ODBC across the board.     
> 
>   - The driver support varies across the different versions of CF
>     (professional, enterprise, and J2EE)
>     
> 
> Someone who uses CF on a regular basis can probably fill you 
> in. I know people who use CF on linux a lot, but I don't 
> think they connect it to Access.
> 
> My summary is based on the Macromedia product overview page:
>     
> http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/productinfo/feat
> ures_by_edition/
> 
> 
> 
> --karl
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