Live acces to Flat File DB - Maybe a connector or ODBC?

[ciaobaby]

Hey any of you guys know how I can tie into an "active" flat file DB using MySQL? "active" meaning the DOS progy is running on clients, I just need to look into the data for reports - software company is willing to give me the table layouts. Just have to deal with file/record locks and such.

Before you suggest to copy into .txt and work with it, no thanks I need access to live data. )

Thanks


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[ingresman]

Hi,

need more info, have you got a product name ?, if it's just a collection of records you could just fopen it if you can accesss it over your network, anyway post more details

regards

kr

 

[sleipnir214]

I think your metaphor is wrong. A MySQL database server can look at two things: its own data data store and a client.

There is software that can synchronize heterogeneous data sources with MySQL. But the software consists of a client that looks at the foreign data source and another client that is speaking to MySQL. Those two clients talk to one another.


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[ingresman]

Does this solve your problem ???