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Features
OpenRDA ODBC Driver for UNIX
OpenRDAź ODBC Driver Kit allows client/server access to databases
on Microsoft Windows platforms (including Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000
and XP). It allows you to access Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL
Server, Oracle, and any other ODBC compliant database from any of
the supported platforms that include SPARC Solaris, Linux, HP-9000
HP-UX, Intel/SCO UNIX, Alpha OpenVMS, VAX OpenVMS, Alpha Digital
UNIX and others.
Client/server Architecture
OpenAccess Software's solution is a client/server solution that
uses a client component and a server component to allow connectivity
across many platforms without the need for vendor supplied libraries.
The OpenRDA ODBC Server allows applications on any of the supported
platform to use the OpenRDA ODBC Driver to perform client/server
access to the data residing on a Windows platform (actually the
database can be on any platform but an ODBC driver for it must be
installed on a Windows system). All that is required to allow the
client and the server to communicate is a TCP/IP network. The OpenRDA
ODBC Server uses existing ODBC drivers to access the database.
The OpenRDA ODBC database access solution includes:
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OpenRDAź ODBC Server for Windows - The server process receives
requests from the OpenRDA ODBC clients and passes them on to
the database for processing.
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OpenRDAź ODBC Driver - Microsoft ODBC compliant driver that
applications use in order to execute SQL statements. The driver
exposes an ODBC compliant API and is responsible for communicating
these requests to a OpenRDA Server for processing.
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ODBC driver manager - iODBC driver manager is included in
binary and source code form. This component is required by configurations
that use the driver manager to allow the use of any ODBC driver.
Custom applications can directly link to the OpenRDA ODBC driver
library. The required header files and library files are included
to allow you to develop your own applications. Some application
development environments include their own copy of an ODBC driver
manager from Merant. In this case the OpenRDA ODBC driver can
be configured to work with this driver manager.
- ISQL - an interactive program for executing queries. Use it
to test out access to your database from the client platform.
The OpenRDA ODBC Driver Kit allows you to quickly connect ODBC compliant
applications on any of the supported platform to a support database
server. Also, it lets you develop applications that use a single API
that is compliant with the Microsoft ODBC specification to access
any database supported by the OpenRDA Client/Server products. The
resulting applications are portable to any of the supported platforms.
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