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DB connectivity dev.

Hi folks,

Are there any "open source" DB connectivity kits for LV ?
Or should we initiate a free kit dev. project ? Might even get some
support from the major DB vendors ?

your ideas are welcome.

andres
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Check out http://www.jeffreytravis.com/lost/.
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I have written a simple active x control that allows you to execute SQL
commands against a microsoft access database. This worked to read and write
records and with appropriate SQL commands you could do just about anything
else. At the time I gave it little thought because my customer already had a
copy of NI's SQL toolkit. This was a better solution.

However I have been reading that there is now a $100 licencing fee per user
of the sql toolkit. Im not sure if that was always there or if this is
something recently added. If a project required a large number of users, it
would be worth the time to develop the active X version.



"Andres mellik" wrote in message
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> Hi folk
>
> Are there any "ope
n source" DB connectivity kits for LV ?
> Or should we initiate a free kit dev. project ? Might even get some
> support from the major DB vendors ?
>
> your ideas are welcome.
>
> andres
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Hi Andres,

While not a LabVIEW toolkit, you can get a set of COM objects from Oracle for free. These are very similar to the ADO objects in the new LabVIEW DB Connectivity toolkit, but these are written by Oracle for Oracle and provide much more functionality when dealing with Oracle databases than when using Microsoft's ADO. Also, with this, you do not use ODBC, so your performance is generally faster. The software from Oracle is called Oracle Objects for OLE (OO4O). And did I mention it's free 🙂

Hint, Hint NI...

I don's see how NI can charge a per use fee for their new DB Connectivity Toolset because it is built on Microsoft's ADO (which is free) and Microsoft ODBC drivers (which are free).

Sal
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