ODBC Bridge for QNX?

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Hello,

I’m looking for a fast way to access an external database on a Windows
machine from a QNX Neutrino machine. Is there such an animal? Anyone using
anything like this? All help appreciated.

Spatch

2

If you look at QNX home page you’ll notice a product announced by
Empress. Allows to access MS SQL server from Neutrino…

  • igor

Spatch wrote:

Hello,

I’m looking for a fast way to access an external database on a Windows
machine from a QNX Neutrino machine. Is there such an animal? Anyone using
anything like this? All help appreciated.

Spatch

3

Already saw it and it isn’t what I need. You actually have to send Empress
the fields you want and they program the app for you to access up to 30
fields Yuk! I want to access it myself and have WAY more than 30 fields.
It is also primarily for accessing QNX data FROM SQL Server, I need to
access SQL Server data FROM QNX.

Thanks for the advice, but the Empress solution is not what I need.

Keep the ideas coming though folks. :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Spatch

“Igor Kovalenko” <Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com> wrote in message
news:3B4A285E.4C7B9E12@motorola.com…

If you look at QNX home page you’ll notice a product announced by
Empress. Allows to access MS SQL server from Neutrino…

  • igor

Spatch wrote:

Hello,

I’m looking for a fast way to access an external database on a Windows
machine from a QNX Neutrino machine. Is there such an animal? Anyone
using
anything like this? All help appreciated.

Spatch

4

Check out www.freetds.org

—Thom

Spatch wrote:

Already saw it and it isn’t what I need. You actually have to send Empress
the fields you want and they program the app for you to access up to 30
fields Yuk! I want to access it myself and have WAY more than 30 fields.
It is also primarily for accessing QNX data FROM SQL Server, I need to
access SQL Server data FROM QNX.

Thanks for the advice, but the Empress solution is not what I need.

Keep the ideas coming though folks. > :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Spatch

“Igor Kovalenko” <> Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com> > wrote in message
news:> 3B4A285E.4C7B9E12@motorola.com> …
If you look at QNX home page you’ll notice a product announced by
Empress. Allows to access MS SQL server from Neutrino…

  • igor

Spatch wrote:

Hello,

I’m looking for a fast way to access an external database on a Windows
machine from a QNX Neutrino machine. Is there such an animal? Anyone
using
anything like this? All help appreciated.

Spatch

5

What I ended up doing in one perticular case, is my own wrapper using
TCP/IP (RPC).

“Spatch” <spatch@spatchy.com> wrote in message
news:9idao5$lru$1@inn.qnx.com…

Already saw it and it isn’t what I need. You actually have to send
Empress
the fields you want and they program the app for you to access up to 30
fields Yuk! I want to access it myself and have WAY more than 30 fields.
It is also primarily for accessing QNX data FROM SQL Server, I need to
access SQL Server data FROM QNX.

Thanks for the advice, but the Empress solution is not what I need.

Keep the ideas coming though folks. > :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Spatch

“Igor Kovalenko” <> Igor.Kovalenko@motorola.com> > wrote in message
news:> 3B4A285E.4C7B9E12@motorola.com> …
If you look at QNX home page you’ll notice a product announced by
Empress. Allows to access MS SQL server from Neutrino…

  • igor

Spatch wrote:

Hello,

I’m looking for a fast way to access an external database on a Windows
machine from a QNX Neutrino machine. Is there such an animal? Anyone
using
anything like this? All help appreciated.

Spatch

6

There is also a stripped-down version of DB/2 available for QNX 6 from IBM.
Take a look at http://www-4.ibm.com/software/data/db2/everyplace/db2einfo.html

Hope that helps!!


Spatch wrote:

Hello,

I’m looking for a fast way to access an external database on a Windows
machine from a QNX Neutrino machine. Is there such an animal? Anyone using
anything like this? All help appreciated.

Spatch

–
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President
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(905) 474-9111 ext. 26 voice
(905) 474-0536 fax

“IntelliMap/911: The Only Intelligent Solution”

7

I found this under qdn.public.news. I’ve cut and pasted the orignal post
here. You may be interested in this…hope it helps.
Kevin


Hi,

Its been suggested I post this here (instead of where I first posted it,
qdn.public.articles)

I have just finished ports of unixODBC (http://www.unixodbc.org) and our

ODBC-ODBC bridge client (http://www.easysoft.com/products/oob) to
QNX 6.1 x86. Hopefully there will be people who can test this.

Between them the two packages provide apps on QNX with the ODBC 3.5 API,

libs and headers, and some command line tools to check connectivity. The

unixODBC package provides a ODBC 3.5 Driver Manager, and includes a
driver for Postgres and a sinple text driver. The ODBC-ODBC Brodge
Client is a ODBC driver that can be used to connect to the
ODBC-ODBC bridge server on windows or unix boxes, and provides the QNX
application access to ODBC data sources on the remote box.

This way QNX can connect to SQL Server, Oracle, and just about any other

database with a Windows ODBC driver.

–
Nick Gorham
Easysoft Ltd



“Spatch” <spatch@spatchy.com> wrote in message
news:9id6te$jjf$1@inn.qnx.com…

Hello,

I’m looking for a fast way to access an external database on a Windows
machine from a QNX Neutrino machine. Is there such an animal? Anyone
using
anything like this? All help appreciated.

Spatch

8

Thanks for the info. I have been working with Easysoft now for several
weeks on this and I have the bridge installed on QNX 6 and working with my
external data source (SQL Server on W2K). It is great being able to access
databases now from QNX without having to program your own driver or access
method. Just use this bridge and connect your QNX 6 project to ANY ODBC
compliant database anywhere on your network. WHOOHOO!

If anyone is considering accessing databases from QNX 6, I’d give this
product a look.

Jim

“Kevin Stallard” <kevin@flyingrobots.com> wrote in message
news:9k4rf3$oij$1@inn.qnx.com…

I found this under qdn.public.news. I’ve cut and pasted the orignal post
here. You may be interested in this…hope it helps.
Kevin


Hi,

Its been suggested I post this here (instead of where I first posted it,
qdn.public.articles)

I have just finished ports of unixODBC (> http://www.unixodbc.org> ) and our

ODBC-ODBC bridge client (> http://www.easysoft.com/products/oob> ) to
QNX 6.1 x86. Hopefully there will be people who can test this.

Between them the two packages provide apps on QNX with the ODBC 3.5 API,

libs and headers, and some command line tools to check connectivity. The

unixODBC package provides a ODBC 3.5 Driver Manager, and includes a
driver for Postgres and a sinple text driver. The ODBC-ODBC Brodge
Client is a ODBC driver that can be used to connect to the
ODBC-ODBC bridge server on windows or unix boxes, and provides the QNX
application access to ODBC data sources on the remote box.

This way QNX can connect to SQL Server, Oracle, and just about any other

database with a Windows ODBC driver.

–
Nick Gorham
Easysoft Ltd



“Spatch” <> spatch@spatchy.com> > wrote in message
news:9id6te$jjf$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Hello,

I’m looking for a fast way to access an external database on a Windows
machine from a QNX Neutrino machine. Is there such an animal? Anyone
using
anything like this? All help appreciated.

Spatch
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