Re: Sybase and Gnomedb

["Peter C. Norton" <spacey lenin nu>]

The sybase CTLib is very similar to ODBC.  It should be straightforward to
copy from it.  Since the ODBC code shouldn't be used anymore, someone could
document how we should come up with more providers w/o basing them on
current code.

-Peter

On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 12:12:26PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> Lee Smith wrote:
> > 
> > I have sifted through the list archives looking for something relating to
> > Syabse.  Unfortunatly I found nothing.  I am exploring different methods of
> > connecting to our sybase server with a gtk front end.  Gnome-DB looks
> > promising.  I have however come across my first problem.  The gdalib file.
> > I have used gda-mgr to set it up.  It is as follows:
> > 
> > [Datasources]
> > TEST=TEST
> > 
> > [TEST]
> > Provider=sybase
> > DNS=HOST=123.123.123.123;PORT=4100
> > Description=TEST DB
> > Username=IT
> > Configurator=None
> > 
> > When using the "gda-fe" I get the error upon attempting to connect:
> > 
> > "Could not open CORBA factory"
> > 
> > I am lost to what this error indicates.
> > 
> > Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > thx
> > 
> The problem you're having is that the sybase provider (gda-sybase-srv)
> does not work at all, so it's never compiled. Support for sybase is not
> ready yet, so please use another DBMS (if you can of course) when using
> gnome-db. Or even better, help us to add it if you know the sybase API.
> 
> Cheers
> 
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