>>>>Hi everybody,
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>>>>I have a customer who wants to get information from VFP database using JAVA and ODBC driver. He asked me for the Database ID. I don't know what to give him. Any suggestions on what is the connection he should use from Java getting to VFP database? I presume that once he has a connection he can call VFP database using SQL command and get the data, right?
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>>>>Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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>>>Did you check
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/connectionstrings.aspx#Visual%20FoxPro>>
>>Thank you. I will cut and send him the in for on VFP connection string.
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>Just keep in mind that the last ODBC driver for VFP was for VFP6.
>If you use newly introduced types as AUTOINC, BLOB, varchar your user will get error.
>I saw somewhere (Unfortunately I can't remember right now) some 3th party ODBC for VFP. The company claims that it works woth VFP9, but I never tested it though.
>When I remember I'll post the link :-)
Thank you. I don't use the VFP9-specific features (AUTOINIC, BLOB), so it should be fine.
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