Connecting to Sybase

[SIG357]

I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I'm working on a Pocket PC app using VS.net 2003. I'd like to open an ado connection to a sybase db on our serveramd grab a few records. DOes anyone know of a way to do this with out installing additional software? I know Sybase has an ultralite db for the PPC, but i can't justify buying it for these purposes. I don't want to do syncronization, or any offline stuff, just pull down a list of names from the db and go from there? Any way to do this, or alternative ideas?
Thanks

Joe

 

[bueller]

Joe,

My suggestion would be if you just need to grab a quick static recordset and then store it locally store it in a local XML file on the Pocket PC. It is easy to do with .NET. as long as the XML file is not to huge.
HTH,
Bueller

 

[SIG357]

I would love to grab a quick recordset and store it locally and operate on it, but i haven't found a way to do this without installing the local ultralite database on the ppc. Like I said, my data requirements are minimal. All i need to do is pull a list of names off the network server (a 2000 box running Sybase SQL Anywhere 5.0) and possibly throw some INSERT statements back at the server, but I can't figure out an easy way of doing this. With most other platforms/databases i've used or looked at, all i would need to accomplish this would be a driver and the appropriate connection string to use with ADO, but Sybase seems to not be that easy. Any suggestions?