Is there a SQL VI for macs?

[eyecannon]

Hey folks,

I emailed customer service about this issue but they had no answer and said to post it here. I have the VI that comes with the database connectivity toolkit that does SQL transactions. I am looking to run the program on a mac, but have not found a working equivalent VI for macs. The tenative solution is to run a C program from labview to do it, but we are trying to avoid the extra layer. Please let me know if such a VI exists.

Thanks!

[tst]

The extra layer exists anyway because the DB toolkit VIs use ActiveX. You can try searching for LabSQL, but that might be windows specific as well, and it's not a finished commercial product.

[eyecannon]

Anyone have any other ideas?

Final desperation bump...

[JLS]

Hello,

Nothing specifically, but you should definitely google for some example code if you're not sure where to start 🙂

Best Regards and Best of Luck developing!

JLS

[mikeporter]

The new Mac OS is basically a version of Unix (or is it Linux) in either case, there should be interface libraries available for those platforms that you can leverage. For example, if you were to write a program in C on a Mac to talk to, say Oracle. What interface would you use? You might be able to access the same library functions from LV.

Also, I seem to remember reading something that ODBC is now cross platform. Perhaps that might help.

Finally, can you use VI server on one platform (Mac) to run a VI residing on another platform (Windows)? If so you could write an application server -- which is not a bad idea anyway -- in Windows and your Mac application doesn't need to worry about how to talk to the database, or what kind of database it is, or the database structure, or a lot of other stuff...

Mike...