Re: [cobalt-users] ASP and Interbase

["Richard Abrams" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Anyone care to enlighten me about Interbase and ASP. I have a factory
> standard RAQ4r and I am curious what people use as their windows clients
to
> create tables etc. and what ODBC driver they use to connect their ASP dev
> s/w with? Any takers?

Hi there,

I'm not currently using ODBC on desktop to connect to our Interbase server
(we have a RaQ4i). But! I have done some experimental work with the system
in the interest of being... well interested :-)

Discussion on the Developer list, seems to indicate that a popular solution
is to download the server and client / IBConsole from Borland
(http://www.borland.com/devsupport/interbase/opensource/) and install that
on your Windows desktop (not so useful if you're a Mac developer!!). Develop
the databases locally and then throw them at your server when complete!

When it comes to administering the database remotely, consider the following
products:

Interbase Workbench (http://www.interbaseworkbench.com)
IB Console (see above)
Zeos Library (http://www.zeoslib.org/)

Incidentally (while I am thinking of it) you may need to add or uncomment a
line from your services file on your development machine and RaQ
(\windows\services and /etc/services respectively):

gds_db    3050/tcp    # Interbase client service

Good luck!!

        -Richard

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