Re: Quick question about GDA

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 13:35, matt nottingham virgin net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use Gnumeric_gdaif (with gnumeric 1.0.9) but I can't
> find any useful docs. I've looked through the CVS source but there are
> no examples either. I've also looked at the libgda documentation, but
> that just seems to give an API reference. What I would like to know is
> the format for the DSN argument of execSQL - any examples would be
> great (I'm trying to connect to a MySQL database). Whatever I try it
> just comes back with "Error: could not open connection to %s" - which
> isn't the most helpfull of messages either!
DSN is the name of a GDA data sources, as configured on your system (run
gnomedb-fe and start the 'new dsn' wizard). That wizard will guide you
through all the process of creating the DSN, and the, you just have to
use the name you chose for the DSN as argument to execSQL.

cheers