[geeks] Desktops

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:46:17PM -0600, Dave Kimmel wrote:
> On Thu, 9 May 2002, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> 
> > but Access assumes you are going to use some fucked up M$ database underneath
> > doesn't it?  i couldn't do work in access for export to Oracle or PostgreSQL
> > could i?  didn't think so.
> 
> Just for a laugh, I used Access to look at some tables on a PostgreSQL
> database using ODBC.  It worked quite well, except for one unimportant
> table that mysteriously showed all of the data as "#Deleted".  Not that it
> matters to me since I already have a decent PHP frontend to this
> particular thing.

I wrote some code for a friend where you hit a hot key in Excel, and it
let you open, query, and dump to worksheets from ODBC sources.  Kinda usefull.
I believe siag has this built in.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd

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