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From: Enrico Soldani
Subject: Re: VW 2.0 Local database access
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>   franko@halcyon.com (Frank Osborne) writes:
>  Has anyone used ODBC or some other method to read and write to a local 
>  database from VW 2.0? We have Sybase on the network but we need a local 
>  D/B for laptop users. I know that ParcPlace has an ODBC driver in 
>  development but they will not give us an est release date and we have 
>  some immediate requirements.
>  
>  We would like to use MS Access as our database but would be interested in 
>  any database that people have used.

I've had no problems using VW 2.0 with Personal Oracle installed on my machine.
By changing the environment name I can choose to work with the local database
or with a database running under Netware or one running under Unix.

Enrico
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Enrico Soldani                     clemnet@clemenger.com.au
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